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  Migrating from Ghost to Jekyll Aug 25, 2014

  In an effort to learn a little about the technology behind today’s blogging platforms, I migrated this blog from Wordpress (php) to Ghost (node.js) at the start of the year. I’ve recently migrated to Jekyll …
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  Scala support in Atom Jun 21, 2014

  For the sake of variation I’ve been writing some of my Scala in Atom. Out of the box support isn’t really there, so the first thing you have to do is to obtain the language-scala package. Atom currently …
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  Custom Post & Tag Paths with Ghost Apr 15, 2014

  This post covers how to customise tag and post paths with the Ghost blogging platform. The background required is a working installation of Ghost 0.4.2, a basic understanding of JavaScript and a decent text editor, say …
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  Configuring Ghost Admin to use HTTPS with nginx Jan 26, 2014

  I’m considering migrating from Wordpress to Ghost so have them running side by side for a bit: http://oftheoldschool.com (Wordpress) http://andy.stanton.is/writing/ (Ghost) Ghost does not have good media support at …
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  Scala, Regex, Apply, String Interpolation and Companion Objects Jan 23, 2014

  Background: I’ve recently had the opportunity to code with Scala for the acceptance tests in some of the AWS projects we’re doing at work. I read more cool stuff about Scala every day and I’m trying to …
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  Cross-Platform Considerations 2 Jan 12, 2014

  Since my previous writing on Cross-Platform Considerations, I’ve been looking at setting up automated builds based on git commits. I’ll write something more about this at some point but the gist of it is that …
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  Christmas Hobbying Dec 28, 2013
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  Unit Testing and Mocking in C++ Dec 23, 2013

  This post covers my recent experience with unit testing and mocking in C++. By way of an introduction I was a slow convert to Test Driven Development, mostly due to the lack of it in my first couple of jobs. Once you use …
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  Aerobatics Dec 11, 2013

  One of my colleagues, Jez, is an accomplished pilot and owner of a Pitts S-2A aerobatic biplane. Last Saturday he was generous enough to take myself, Rama and Mike up for a spin - giving us a quick lesson in basic …
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  What happens when you give software to a professional Tester Nov 10, 2013

  Lana is a software Tester. I gave her beta 1. This happened:

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