Category Archives: Computing

Backup Server

Posted on September 13, 2011 by james

Now I’m moving as much of my paperwork as possible to electronic format and given that we have lots of photos and video footage of the children in electronic form I decided it might well be sensible to have some … Continue reading →

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Ditching My Paperwork

Posted on September 12, 2011 by james

I can’t quite believe it’s been six months since I last wrote anything. I guess that’s just how busy I’ve been of late. Time flies like a banana. Anyhow, thanks to a client who wanted me to sign an NDA … Continue reading →

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Loading MySQL data for phpunit testing

Posted on February 9, 2011 by james

I’d been bugged for a while because when I was writing phpunit tests for some of my code, I couldn’t find a tidy way of pre-loading data into a MySQL database for testing against. Everything I came up with seemed … Continue reading →

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Searching for the longest match with MySQL

Posted on February 9, 2011 by james

I’ve been involved with Carbon Guerrilla, a project to allow organisations to manage and track their CO2 emissions for some time now. Yesterday I was working on some code to allow people to compare emissions across locations by re-basing emissions … Continue reading →

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Sortable list of Messier Objects

Posted on February 8, 2011 by james

Although I’ve been interested in the stars for years, I’ve only recently become a telescope owner.  Despite the lack of clear nights since receiving my new toy, I’ve spent some time looking at the obvious things like the moon and … Continue reading →

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