Redshift

Sun CTO Greg Papadoupolos, in the late noughties posited that the growth in IT spend was going to come from those applications  (or installations) that would grow faster than Moore’s Law and that this growth had significant implications for systems designers. 

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WordPress in the Cloud

WordPress is famously available at wordpress.com as Software-as-a-Service. What should one do if one comes to the conclusion that this isn’t what you need? The two obvious solutions are one of the cloud providers and I should say I personally use one&one for various reasons.

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DaaS

I was thinking about DaaS and how to use RDP to access a modern desktop from my Tablet and my thoughts moved to Azure although I have not given up on AWS. In fact, I will be faster with AWS and actually have an account. Here’s the links and reading …

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YANF web calendar

I came across https://tockify.com, it seems to be a calendar implemented as Software-as-service and access via http. It could be useful for wordpress (or other CMS) sites where plugins are unavailable but html is.

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WordPress 301 Redirects

I am looking to 301 my old blog.davelevy.info site. This would seem to be complicated by the need to transform the permalinks from ./YYYY/MM/DD/slug into ./slug. Here are my notes, …

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HUGO

Hugo is a general-purpose website framework. Technically speaking, Hugo is a static site generator. Here are my notes , I tried three times, the most recent attempt in Dec 2022. …

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Small Scale CRM

I offered my advice to a correspondent who asked for advice on data mapping between old and new data models for a membership system. They are a smallish non-profit. I did some research which I hope you find interesting or useful. My advice is shaped by my experience which includes as you can see, a…

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Skype & Windows 10 (Versions)

I originally wrote this in 2018, the solution to the system freeze was to use a W10 reset function. I had to revisit Skype & W10 in May 2020. 2020 This time round I originally identified a problem as Skype failing to open the video window, or failing to write it to the screen. I…

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Diaspora

I see why virtualisation and serverless computing is so popular. I am trying to create a diaspora pod. Here are my notes,

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Route 53 (on AWS)

With the advent of lightsail, I am re-evaluating AWS and need to look at DNS. The Amazon service is called Route 53. I assume it would replace ddclient in my previous solutions design. Here are my notes.

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WordPress calendar plugin

I have just installed the time.ly All-in-One Event Calendar, a wordpress plugin on this wiki/blog. It’s rather cool, you can view the one event, a test on this wiki via the calendar page and here. The event has an “add to calendar” widget, which I have been playing with on other blogs. It displays a…

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