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FPDF updated to PHP 5 with PSR 1 and 2 (ish)

By Leonard On Monday 4th March 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Programming

I’ve recently been tasked with taking a paper-based system online; a classic use-case for a billion and one programs before it. One of the (legal) requirements of the system is that it must be able to produce the paper-based version of the system, in case the users have to produce it at any given time. [...]

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EE by gum… Three are about to throw a big 4G spanner in the works

By Leonard On Saturday 9th February 2013 · Leave a Comment · In General

I’m a couple of days late to this news, but Three has quietly popped out a press release regarding their stance on 4G LTE. As you will have seen from the mind-numbingly cringe-worthy adverts with Mr Bacon, EE (Everything Everywhere, the [...]

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10 things I’d like to see in the next generation of Apple products

By Leonard On Friday 1st February 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Hardware, Operating Systems

I’m fond of Apple products. They’re not perfect, but for me they’re the closest to being so. I don’t like to get caught up in the fan-boy wars that you see the comments of posts riddled with, if someone prefers an alternative brand, brilliant, go do that quietly. But what I do want to share [...]

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RL

By Leonard On Tuesday 29th January 2013 · Leave a Comment · In General

It’s been quiet around here recently! A lot has been happening, mind, I’ve been swamped with projects, the biggest one getting this feller up and running…

My wife and I welcomed our son in to the world on the 11/12/12 (tell me about it) and we’re absolutely thrilled to be inundated with nappies, baby wipes [...]

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Use Propel with Plesk

By Leonard On Tuesday 13th November 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Programming, Servers

Welcome to another post in the “how to hack X to make it worth with Plesk” series. I’ve been working with Propel quite a bit recently, and I must admit it’s fantastic. But while deploying some code using it to a server running Plesk, I found there was very little information on the web interested [...]

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Sync a clipboard manager across multiple machines

By Leonard On Saturday 29th September 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Quick Tips, Software

I’m tremendously busy at the minute, with several large projects on and a baby due in December, but I realise I’ve been neglecting this blog a little bit, so here’s a short tip for anyone who uses their clipboard to copy an paste stuff — which I’m sure is the vast majority of you! When [...]

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Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse

By Leonard On Monday 10th September 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Gaming

I cast my memory back well over a decade ago, before the turn of the millenium, when I was a young, innocent boy, just getting in to computers. I was sleeping over at a friend’s house, who had a Sony Playstation. We certainly couldn’t afford one of these consoles, but I could spend hours at [...]

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How To Disable Karoo’s DNS Assist By Using Alternative DNS Servers In Your Router Settings

By Leonard On Sunday 17th June 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Hardware, Quick Tips

To skip the moaning, you can go straight to the too long; didn’t read part.

Kingston Communications seem to be have been redefining their own destiny over the last couple of years, by improving their products and customer service. As someone who’s only been living in Hull on and off for [...]

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Using Propel with WampServer

By Leonard On Sunday 6th May 2012 · 4 Comments · In Databases

One of the more unfortunate things I have to do is work with WampServer. Fair enough, the bulk is just standard Apache/MySQL/PHP configuration, but when it comes to support, available resources and just generally having to work in such a limited operating system, it can be a little depressing. Luckily not everything is impossible in [...]

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Dropbox with Plesk

By Leonard On Saturday 31st March 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Servers

Those who have seen my previous posts know I am a huge fan of Dropbox. If you’ve been living in a microwave for the last five years and aren’t lucky enough to be using, or low and behold, heard of it, yet, Dropbox is a backup [...]

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    • EE by gum… Three are about to throw a big 4G spanner in the works
    • 10 things I’d like to see in the next generation of Apple products
    • RL
    • Use Propel with Plesk
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