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On rethinking my database structure
I’ve been using Laravel for my personal website for about eight months now and haven’t looked back since. This huge advantage to my rebuilding it in that way — from its original WordPress foundations — was that I had a crash course in using Laravel as well as learning some best practices as well. Now…
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100 Albums #2 – The Wall: Live in Berlin by Roger Waters (and various artists)
A couple of weeks ago I went to see the one-night-only showing of Roger Waters’ The Wall at my local cinema. That performance rekindled my love for that album – indeed Pink Floyd in general. Yesterday I revisted an older performance of the album, which was given at the Berlin wall at the time when…
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100 Albums #1 – Kiddo by Tove Styrke
My very first album write up goes to Tove Styrke’s Kiddo. I had never heard of her before tonight – she was a recommendation by Google Play Music, based on my interest in ‘Say Lou Lou’. As soon as the first song started, I was hooked. Hooked enough to take advantage of my Android 6.0…
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All in all – thoughts of Roger Waters The Wall
A slow, winding blade of green weaves across the ever-growing familiar white brickwork from the left side of the stage. Then another from the right. They wind slowly across the length of the wall – both to the centre and up – until they blend seamlessly into one of the most iconic animations from The…
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Facebook is a cancer on the web
I commute into Birmingham each day to work and see people on there phones and tablets passing the time. I’m a bit of a nosy git, so I can’t help but take a glance at what they’re looking at. I’m always disheartened when I see — most of the time — it ends up being…
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100 days 2015 – 10 days in
For the past ten days I have been doing the 100 day challenge. I decided to have a go at building my own e-commerce CMS. I don’t have a big passion for e-commerce. In fact most of the time I work with e-commerce it frustrates me. But then I always remember hearing the old saying:…
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