I thought that I would share this to hopefully help others after I lost about 4 hours on this during the course of today! I have been experimenting with creating a simple Web API using Ruby on Rails 5 to give me a common backend for something that I am trying to get...
For the last couple of years, I have considered myself relatively au-fait with electric vehicles, owning both a Nissan Leaf and a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. I am used to the evening routine of getting home and plugging the vehicle in ready to use the next day and on...
It has been a long time since the mad flurry of posts on the blog and part of the question, has to be, why? I think that I actually lost sight of the thought that I started with which was just to get stuff onto the blog. I read some articles and even e-books on the...
It’s been a little quiet over the past week a, but not through conscious action. Having decided to re-launch a site and get things going again, I was feeling pretty happy. Problems around the corner? Unfortunately, almost everytime I checked in on my site, I...
If you want to get a good blog you have to get started, even if you’re not ready! You may have lots of ideas for what you want your blog to be, or you may only just be starting out. You may have lots of ideas about how the blog should look, or you may still be trying...
Building a URL shortener strategy whilst keeping a sense of Company identity Background I first came up with the Company name nearly 15 years ago when I was first thinking about the idea of setting up my own company. There was just something about the name Solutions...
Not sure why, and I can’t seem to find any reason why but when I connected my iPad Pro Smart keyboard this evening, I was offered an update. I’ve accepted it as I would like to believe that Apple have made it difficult to hack the process… I...
[fusion_text] [/fusion_text] [fusion_text]If you learn no other keyboard shortcut in Sublime Text then, please, learn this one! This will open the powerful shortcuts menu from where you can edit/select most things. Do yourself, your fingers and your mouse a favour...
At the backend of last year, I was invited to give a demonstration to the Year 2 children at a local school about computing type toys. I agreed that I would go up and show them Lego Mindstorms, SAM Labs kit and Scratch Jr on the iPad. On arrival though, I realised...
After a number of years with a website that has been ‘mis-behaving’ it is time to start again with a blank slate. To do that, I have for now decided that we would use a WordPress blog to host the site as it is a quick and easy way to get something up and...
