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Designing secure applications with Formidable Forms
I use Formidable Forms for all my web application development using WordPress. The time spent learning the framework is repaid (just) by the speed with which I can build new front ends. In the last year the documentation is improved greatly and the team is targeting enterprise developers. Formidable Forms is stateless and all information…
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Free speech in Universities
If you would like to see how strongly your alma mater is supporting free speech then here is a great resource. http://www.spiked-online.com/free-speech-university-rankings
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How to find that first graduate job
How the recruitment process works Graduate recruitment is a “numbers game”. There is what we call a “funnel”. It is wide at the start when it contains many applications but narrow at the end when only one candidate remains. 100 applicants will apply for a job 80 CVs will be read by the recruiter (late…
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Cloning or Restoring a drive also restores bad block list!
When you clone or restore a drive, for example when replacing an HDD with and SSD or doing a restore from a Veeam backup you also copy over the list of bad blocks from the old drive. Chkdsk will report no errors but Veeam (or other backup software might). To fix this run, chkdsk /b…
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API first development (using Postman)
This is a great article about API first development https://medium.com/postman-engineering/api-first-software-development-for-modern-organizations-fdbfba9a66d3 It is often said that every generation thinks that it has discovered sex and in the same way sensible coding practices are “rediscovered” every couple of years. Nevertheless I like this article because it frames API development in a modern context.
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[Fixed] Error Using Veeam Agent for Windows Free with a NAS
I have previously blogged about how to back-up home systems to commercial standards. A useful tool for the home user is Veeam Agent for Windows Free. It allows you to make a recovery disk and system image and has a very reliable restore feature. In the small office/home (SoHo) environment the back-up target will typically…
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WinDirStat is dead – long live TreeSize Free
For many years WinDirStat has been my first port of call when I want to analyse disk use. However I have found that it runs very slowly and looks awful on my 4k monitor. A faster, prettier solution is TreeSize Free. This does most of what WinDirStat does and premium versions are available for commercial…
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Low Power Networks for IoT (LPWAN)
Although dilettantes like myself mainly play with IoT devices on Wi-Fi there is a real and growing market for industrial IoT devices that send data over Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). For example, drainage systems that must report water levels in the field (literally) and respond to instructions to turn on a water pump.…
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Fixed: DFPlayer Mini MP3 player does not work
(keywords: bad sound, noisy sound, power supply, squawking) I spend several hours trying to make the DFPlayer Mini MP3 player work in the simplest configuration on the a breadboard (no Arduino). How To Set Up And Use The DFPlayer Mini MP3 Player I got erratic behaviour and sometimes the chip just looked dead. Fix: Use…
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IOT – A review of the Electric Imp
The Internet of Things (IoT) is basically IP connected devices sending data back and forth to servers in the cloud. Computers and mobile phones do this all the time so how is IOT different? IoT devices tend to be “appliances” that do one job well and contain micro-controllers not computers. The data they send back…
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Dr James Bayley 