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Windows 10 Is Dead, Long Live Linux
Tech
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
Kubernetes
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
Azure
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
eBooks
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
eBooks
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
Code
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
Machine-Learning
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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4th Preston Computer Programmers Meetup 12th July 2016
Code
4th Preston Computer Programmers Meetup 12th July 2016

July 13, 2016

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Liverpool Umbraco Meetup - 7th July 2016
Umbraco
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
Code
Preston Computer Programmers Meetup 14th June 2016

June 13, 2016

General chat about compilers by John McMullin:

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Umbraco
Umbraco 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...

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eBooks
Apache 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.

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Umbraco
How to resolve Umbraco 7.2.x log4net conflicts

June 29, 2015

Issue

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Design
Web 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...

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Umbraco
Markdown - 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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