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Jun/16

Document Organisation Part 3 – Optical Character Recognition

Filed Under Windows, Workflow at 6th June 2016 0:01 by

Overview I wanted the text in scans to be embedded in the PDF document which PDF does support. Other solutions I’ve seen have been to include a copy of the text in a separate text file with the same name … Continue reading →

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May/16

Android To iPhone: 6 Months Later

Filed Under Mobile Phone at 2nd May 2016 0:01 by

Overview It’s been at least 6 months since I switched from Android to iOS cold turkey. I still have and use an Android tablet running Marshmallow so I do swap between the two platforms on a daily basis although I … Continue reading →

04

Apr/16

Dockerising WordPress

Filed Under Container, Infrastructure, Linux at 4th April 2016 0:01 by

Overview Container software has really picked up in popularity in part thanks to Docker and the concept is great. So much so I wanted to try it on my blog. Topology My setup consisted of a single instance on DigitalOcean … Continue reading →

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Mar/16

Windows 10 Waking From Sleep

Filed Under Windows at 7th March 2016 0:01 by

Overview Since switching to Windows 10 I have been seeing the computer being woken up from sleep from random events here are some of the things I looked at to solve the wake up issue. Setup Set the computer to … Continue reading →

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Feb/16

Migrating From Ubuntu 14.04 To 16.04

Filed Under Container, Database, Infrastructure, Linux at 22nd February 2016 0:01 by

Overview I have written migration plans for Ubuntu upgrades before. What makes it different this time is the hybrid Docker containers that I have used in places and the support for virtual IP (VIP) in Digital Ocean, my current hosting … Continue reading →

04

Jan/16

Git Submodule v.s Subtree

Filed Under SCM at 4th January 2016 0:01 by

Overview Incorporating libraries that are separately version controlled but requiring it as a dependency can be done in git but there are different ways of doing it. As an example I have used Git’s submodule and subtree. I started with … Continue reading →

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Dec/15

Switching From Android To iPhone 6s

Filed Under Mobile Phone at 7th December 2015 0:01 by

Overview Technically the title should read iOS instead of iPhone but hey ho. It has been a long time since I have used an iPhone full time however I made the switch mainly because of the ever increasing physical size … Continue reading →

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Nov/15

MySQL Workbench Error Code 7

Filed Under Database at 23rd November 2015 0:01 by

Overview On Windows, I was getting the following error trying to take a database dump to file: mysqldump: [ERROR] unknown variable ‘delayed-insert=FALSE’ Operation failed with exitcode 7 At the time I was using Workbench 6.3.5. Temporary Fix Edit the file … Continue reading →