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Functional Programming and Vim shortcuts @ Farset Labs

This entry was posted in Belfast Meetups Development on April 28, 2016 by HAL

Had my first opportunity to go to the Farset Labs in Belfast. You can find them at Weavers Court, Linfield Rd, Belfast BT12 5GH. The visit wasn’t for the facilities for inventors instead it was the Belfast JS meetup which you can find here.  There were two talks after some delicious pizza Dan Skelton gave an overview […]

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Here comes the Cloud! But is your architecture ready for it? – an evening with Bash!

This entry was posted in Tips and tagged Cloud on April 26, 2016 by HAL

Last night I had the pleasure of watching a subject matter expert explain the complexities of datacentre architecture for application delivery. At an event in Brewbot Belfast Axel Fontaine (http://axelfontaine.com/)  covered the various aspects of moving to Cloud in entirety. The calibre of the presenter was obvious as his day job is teaching the approach to […]

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Don’t be so Negative!

This entry was posted in Tips and tagged Film negatives Scanning on April 25, 2016 by HAL

Nothing like a challenge to get your thought processes going. How about some 60 or 70 year old black and white film negatives in unusual (5.5 cm x 5.5 cm) sizes that you want to see the positive image of ? In the past I have had scanners with a transparency capability but mainly that […]

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Spoilt for choice

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2016 by HAL

Having had some particular issues for clients recently on browsers specifically – I was pleasantly surprised  to see two new browsers putting in an appearance. The more recent is Vivaldi  from Opera’s founder and its been in the pipeline for about a year with the release today – so far I have found it fast and […]

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Who’s afraid of the big bad (WEB) Wolf ?

This entry was posted in Comment Security Web and tagged OWASP on March 15, 2016 by HAL

Last nights OWASP event was very well attended and understandably due to the nature of the talks and the speakers !! Talk: Top 10 WebHacks of 2015 Speaker: Johnathan Kuskos – Threat Center Manager at Whitehat Talk: Open Source Security – What Security Testing Tools Miss Speaker: Mike Pittenger – VP of Security Strategy for Blackduck […]

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Is my 3/4g usb modem supported on this Draytek Vigor router ?

This entry was posted in Gadgets Tips on March 12, 2016 by HAL

This was a question asked by a client for one of Draytek’s 2850N routers. I remembered that on the router there was a list of the supported routers but after checking it I realised – its very out of date. A quick email to Seg – the UK distributor of Draytek equipment elicited a link […]

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Getting the current logged on user’s email address in Xpages

This entry was posted in xpages on March 9, 2016 by HAL

When I was looking to do this as a part of an xpages application where I am already getting the logged on user and the IP address that they are communicating with the server from – I thought that this would be an easy thing to complete and that I would consult David Leedy’s excellent […]

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Microsoft MSSQL on Linux – why I am not surprised…

This entry was posted in Comment Databases MSSQL on March 8, 2016 by HAL

The announcement that the stalwart of Microsoft’s database platform is coming to Linux shouldn’t be a surprise. In fact I am surprised they took so long ! The statement regarding future developments of SQL 2016 here show the future direction of the platform and if combined with recent acquisitions of Xamarin and other companies shows the […]

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