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Windows 10 Is Dead, Long Live Linux
October 15, 2025
Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 on International E-Waste Day, pushing millions of working PCs toward planned obsolescence.
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K3S Raspberry Pi cluster with MetalLB
September 28, 2023
In this blog post, I will walk you through my journey of establishing a compact k3s (Kubernetes) cluster using Raspberry Pis. From assembling the initial...
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Azure Resource Manager - ARM Templates, MS Build Update
May 20, 2020
I attended (watched) the talk on “Infrastructure as code - build Azure applications with ARM templates” at MS Build last night presented by Brian Moore...
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XSL-FO is alive and kicking
April 28, 2019
When I last looked at XSL-FO in 2014 it really looked like the writing was on the wall, that CSS Paged Media was going to...
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XSL-FO Is Dead, CSS Paged Media Is Prime Suspect
April 27, 2019
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated
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ReactJS for .Net Developers at Manchester .Net meetup
July 27, 2016
I went along to the my first Manchester .Net meetup, which has now joined forces with another group to become the Windows Platform User Group...
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Calculus... nah thats not sexy Machine Learning it is
July 14, 2016
This is a field that is getting a lot of attention lately with the likes of IBM Watson winning Jeopardy and Googles Alpha Go beating...
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Liverpool Umbraco Meetup - 7th July 2016
July 08, 2016
First umbraco meetup in over a year, I attended to see whats happening in Umbraco land following this years dev conference “Code Garden”.
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Preston Computer Programmers Meetup 14th June 2016
June 13, 2016
General chat about compilers by John McMullin:
Read MoreUmbraco 4 upgrade to Umbraco 7, Date Folders migration to List View
October 05, 2015
Doing an upgrade for a client from 4.9 to 7.2.8, I was stuck with what to do about the date folders package which isn’t supported...
Read MoreApache FOP 2.0 released, now with rounded corners, Apple to investigate
July 03, 2015
Apache FOP (Formating Objects Processor) 2.0 used for transforming XSL-FO (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) to PDF among other formats was released on 3rd June 2015.
Read MoreWeb Design - Internet Explorer 8 and HTML 5
May 07, 2015
Internet Explorer 8 still accounts for 3.78% of all web traffic marginally behind Internet Explorer 11 which stands at 5.36%. Given this most web designers...
Read MoreMarkdown - Write More
May 07, 2015
Background Markdown was created by John Gruber at Daring Fireball as a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.
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