12 October 2016
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On the basis of this funky little video, Vulfpeck is a band I ought to listen to some more. I also observe that, in an age where most band websites conspire to consume your bandwidth and drive your processor into … Continue reading
15 April 2016
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I’m running this blog on WordPress and have just upgraded to the new version, 4.5, named ‘Coleman’ after jazz musician Coleman Hawkins. It is good that the system is kept up to date to ensure security although I’m sure there … Continue reading
29 September 2015
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Don’t worry, there’s nothing unethical going on. I’ve been preparing the ground to do some work on the St Clement’s church website and the first thing I needed to do was to get a working duplicate to perform my manipulations … Continue reading
20 September 2014
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It is possible that you might have hit a blank wall when trying to visit my blog yesterday. I got an alert from my hosting service (1&1) that I needed to upgrade from PHP 5.2 before November. Upgrading is just … Continue reading
10 September 2014
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Today I was delighted to finally be able to press the button to release the new version of the website for my department. NDORMS is a research department within the Medical Sciences Division of the University of Oxford and, while … Continue reading
4 September 2014
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In the sense of “my head against wall”, banging is the word which sums up most of today. I was working on a web development task that required me to login to a server and extract a “magic” key that … Continue reading
18 June 2014
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A few months ago I had a preliminary discussion with a colleague about putting together some web pages for the group she works with. The trouble was that it took a few days for her to get the material together … Continue reading
29 April 2014
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I’ve recently started developing a little database driven application to help organise the music at church, which in turn has meant that I’m doing more interaction with the database on my web server. The “proper” way to do this would … Continue reading
5 March 2014
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I was fascinated by the CSS3 Patterns Gallery which I discovered yesterday, which goes well beyond what I realised could be done with CSS and a modern web browser. I still haven’t fathomed how the trick is done but I’ve … Continue reading
28 February 2014
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Approaching the end of the afternoon at work earlier this week I was reviewing my collection of pending tasks, looking for something relatively minor but hopefully straightforward. We have a departmental directory with people, photos and contact details and the … Continue reading