Introducing Mersey – A Server Management Tool
19th Nov, 2015

In my job I have to maintain a few servers with multiple projects. We have the old Ubuntu 12.04 running special software, two Ubuntu 14.04 servers (one is prettier than the other) and then throw in our VPS too and thats just the servers at work! Jumping between all of these was becoming tedious; a different password to remember at every turn. I had to do something for the sake of my sanity.

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Deployment Script For Production Server
12th Jun, 2015

For a while I have wanted to have a script that deploys updates to a website cleanly and easily. I recently found the time to create such a script and am pretty happy with the first version! Having not really spent any time with creating bash scripts it took a bit of googling research to get started.

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Solar Eclipse 2015
20th Mar, 2015

Surprisingly this is my first photography blog post! If you are here for the photos be my guest and view them here. If you fancy a little read of how we got to take the photos and view the solar eclipse please read on. Either way i’d love to know your thoughts and experience of the eclipse in the comments!

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Reapers the new hope for Drones after Psycho – Muse
17th Mar, 2015

When I heard Muse would be releasing the first single I really tried to not over hype it – I do this with every thing even holidays. I just let them roll up on me and I have a nice surprise. Unfortunately I let my love for Muse get the best of me and I got super hyped for the new single Psycho. When I heard it I was quite deflated but I have put a positive spin on it.

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Two Years Of Sublime
5th Feb, 2015

This month marks the two year anniversary of making the jump from Notepad++ to SublimeText. Reflecting upon the last two years, Sublime has made life so much easier. The plugins, shortcuts and just how it works helps productivity so much but is it time to much on?

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One Day You Might Not Be Allowed To Read This
30th Sep, 2014

Luckily I currently live somewhere where I can express my thoughts and opinions without punishment or any repercussions. I can do this any way I wish including publishing this online for you to read. The freedom the internet gives people is so powerful it has lead to revolutions including the Twitter Revolution in Egypt. Unfortunately this freedom seems to be slowly escaping us.

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Happy First Birthday Blog!
4th Jul, 2014

It is coming up to the birthday of my blog! I thought I’d celebrate this by looking back at some of my personal favourite blogs from the past year and look at my future goals for my blog. Read to the whole post and there will be cake.

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Spoilers – You have no right!
19th Jun, 2014

My number one pet hate is people spoiling things! Apparently a pet hate is a “minor annoyance” not to me. I hate this with a passion! If I could put one thing in Room 101 it would be this. Please note there are spoilers in this post but I have hidden them either with blurry text or a placeholder image; both of which you hover over to reveal the spoiler. The spoilers are Game of Thrones season 4 related.

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