I recently wrote this up on confluence at work. However there is nothing here that’s specific to that environment other than it being for AWS. The idea is to have a consistent environment for all t...

Background While working at Wilbur last year I switched to using Linux as my daily driver. I had previously used Linux as my main OS when I first started as a PHP developer back in 2006 so I was s...

Why Xubuntu? A few reasons, for the Desktop Environment, I haven’t used Linux as a main OS for a very long time and last time I did it was Ubuntu pre-unity days running Gnome 2. I never much liked...

The PDF generator only currently accepts a HTML payload with no external references, this means that all CSS and images and images need to be embedded in the HTML directly. We don’t want to check ...

The application I’m currently working on has a lot of old documents created using a crystal reports editor and references DLLs in a folder in source control instead of using Nuget. As we’re trying ...

I did some photography over the weekend at the Opera House. It was the first time I’ve been out in a while. Here are a few shots.

Earlier in my career I built my own blogging platform for my website many times. Multiple times in PHP, then some iterations were in dotnet. While the general recommendation is to not roll your ow...

The year 2020 has been an interesting year for everyone. Luckily being based in NSW where Covid-19 has been relatively well handled, we managed to get back to a level of normality relatively soon. ...

My last attempt to blog was a few years ago now, I used to regularly blog earlier in my career and it’s something I always struggled to maintain as I’m not the best writer. So what’s different thi...