A British payment processor for managing direct debits accessible it seems to charities and maybe political parties. Here are my notes …
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Silverlight
Some stuff still need it, I want to try it on Linux. Here are my notes.
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Big Data
I am once again trying to write my blog on solutions architecture and the GDPR. I looked up “Data Lake” again and came across some very good resources in a You Tube channel from Intricity. This summarises the design bifurcation between distributed data sources and unified query logic. It’s five years old. He or his…
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Web Monitoring with Uptime Robot
I have just discovered uptime robot, it monitors the availability and responsiveness of my web sites. It’s simple and free and I am quite excited.
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Raspian & APT
This snip was originally created to document the arse-ache I had building my second Pi; it documented problems with Jesse & Stretch. The current release is Buster and so much of this content is deprecated. I amended this in Dec 2025 and in April 2020. I have moved deprecated content to the comments and updated…
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Raspberry Pi Part Deux
I have decided to have another look. Here are my notes, since re-factoring the old page seems a bit of a chore. And now part three, I may need to rebuild the OS image from scratch.
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PHP, 1and1 and (most) of my webspace
I had to upgrade the PHP versions on my 1and1 domain systems. I am now on 7.2. I used the 1and1 control panel. Here are my other notes including the fact that I have replaced the A-Z index plugin. This was written in 2019. …
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HMRS
It seems I have not yet created a wiki page on HRMS software products. Here is what I have said, and here are some notes.
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Umbraco CMS
I need to help appraise an Umbraco project. Here are some links I find useful.
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A carousel slider
I installed wp logo showcase plugin on another blog and need to uninstall it, so I have copied it across to here. Below/Overleaf there is a slide show.
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Local Government Web Sites
As part of my research into Lewisham’s Democracy Review I needed to look at web site design, UX/UI and usability because theirs is very poor. Here’s what I found about being good.
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A poll, using YOP Poll between Red & Blue [yop_poll id=1]
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Collaboration Tools
Having another thing about collaboration, and renewed my aquaintance with discuto and loomio. I also consider the big boys!
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Forms with Google
The time has come! I found this, and am working through it as an example. Here are my notes.
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Easy Index
While experimenting with YOP Poll, I came across Easy Index, which looked rather pretty, although it depends on on the featured images chosen. I made a category index to see how it looked. This might be better if one of the first plugins chosen as it would allow you to chose the featured images more…
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