Jan 4, 2017 | IT, WordPress |
This is just a placeholder for the time being, or maybe even a free advert, but having started playing with WordPress I thought it would be good to learn a little more.
I’ve taken a few Udemy courses, and for the money, they are usually pretty good. I’ve just started this course, so will report back once I’ve finished it, but so far so good.
I’ve got part way through one of Rob Percival’s iOS Developer courses and really enjoyed his style. Having no coding experience, things got hard pretty quickly, but I managed to write a couple of basic Apps for my iPhone before it was parked as needing more time. This one is presented by one of Rob’s colleagues, but is very similar in style, and not as technical, yet!
Jan 2, 2017 | FreeNAS, IT |
I’ve made lots of references to FreeNAS in the earlier ‘technology’ related posts, so thought it might be interesting to pull it all together here and go into a little more detail about my FreeNAS use.
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Dec 19, 2016 | IT, Leisure |
Earlier this year (January to be precise) I backed a Kickstarter project for, what at the time seemed to be, some rather unique wireless earphones > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/revols/revols-premium-quick-custom-fit-wireless-earphones
Unfortunately, as with many Kickstarter projects, these have failed to deliver on time (July, then November and now March 2017!) so when I saw Apple reveal their Airpods at the iPhone event back in September I was quite interested. A little like the Revols, these have also been delayed from the original October launch, and it was looking like they weren’t going to arrive until 2017, at least until last Tuesday…
I must have been reading Macrumors at just the right time, as these hit the Apple Store last week, and within a few hours the option to have them shipped had slipped to 2017, but I managed to order a set and they’ve just arrived!
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Dec 4, 2016 | WordPress |
I know, another blog that doesn’t continue the eOS saga, but I’ve got things to a point that I really need to be trying to use it on a daily basis and I just don’t have the time, or faith, to attempt that at the moment. Hopefully, I will at some point, but for now it’s somewhat parked.
Now I’ve caught the blog bug, though, I have spent a little more time playing with WordPress which I was finding a little clunky to use with the vanilla install I’d created. I mentioned at the start of my blogging journey that I’d set-up a WordPress server as I was working for a client that provided multi-site WordPress to its customers. On that basis, I’d set-up a multi-site WordPress server, as I had a few ideas about using for other things (my company website for one) but other than trying a few different themes, I hadn’t done much with it at all, other than a plugin for 2FA to secure things a little more.
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Dec 1, 2016 | Server |
Another non-eOS blog, but this has wasted some of my time this week and thought it might be useful (at least to me in 3 months time!)
In today’s internet world, creating and using a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate (cert) should be much easier. Ok, it’s actually a lot easier than it used to be a few years ago, but it’s probably still beyond most people running a simple web site/server (including me!)
I first got interested in SSL when I started using ownCloud and initially used a self-signed cert. These are great for testing stuff out but invariably will generate error messages when accessing the sites through most browsers. If you have complete control over the machine, you can trust the self-signed cert, but where you don’t it’s a case of ignoring the errors which become a pain every time you go there.
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Nov 26, 2016 | eOS, macOS, Software |
I’ve decided to try and break this down into 2 blogs, and as a small homage to the greatest film ever made I’m calling the first one Episode IV!
I thought it would be useful to understand what I use in macOS before diving into the alternatives available in eOS. This is likely to be a real deal-breaker, as I know some of the things I use daily just don’t exist outside macOS, but let’s cover off some of this to begin.
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