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Back in 2015 I built a pair of floor standing speakers from a kit. It was a project that I enjoyed immensely and gave me a great sense of satisfaction. I documented the build in stages and got quite a…

I prefer to call it remote working, as for me at least, ‘working from home’ still invokes images of a laptop open on the coffee table with Rick Stein’s Food Heroes on in the background. Whether you call it ‘remote…

This is a fairly common problem with Git, the Unlink of file issue. I encountered it on this occasion when attempting to run git gc to clean up and optimize my local repository. There’s plenty of documentation around this issue, however I…

If you have a Git branch that you want to keep but don’t want it hanging around like a fart in a Russian space station, then archiving is the answer. This can be achieved by tagging the branch with the…

I’ve been using Redgate SQL Source Control on an install of SQL Server Management Studio 2014 for a while now. It works well and integrates with our version control setup to give us a bit of reassurance when developing. I…

This one has caught me out a couple of times, it’s the kind of issue that you fix and forget about it for a few years until the need arises to move to a new machine. Here’s the scenario: Git…

This caught me out. I enabled Two-Factor Authentication on my GitHub account the other day, it works quite well with other services I use and I’ve had no problem with the Android App. Anyway, I promptly forgot about doing this and…

The Eclipse Desktop IDE is my development environment of choice, I’ve been using it for a number of years now and have come to rely on it exclusively for developing code. Whilst I know it has its critics, the PHP IDE project…

I spent most of the 90s travelling around the country Using British Rail, I remember well the day it was privatised in 1996. The pervasive British Rail livery that I’d become so attached to disappeared overnight, replaced with a plethora or…

I’ve been working with Theatre Sites for several months on a fairly complex ticket booking system that has presented a number of technical challenges. The finished product will likely power ticket selection and purchase for thousands of shows in Theatres across the country.…