Camino Blog Creating a WordPress Account WordPress is by far the most popular tool for creating a blog, and has the widest commercial support for themes and plug-ins. It is easy to get started.
Camino Blog Featured Creating a YouTube Channel How to create a YouTube Channel which can be managed by multiple people and to upload video posts to it from mobile device.
Camino Blog Camino de Santiago Mick is planning on walking the Camino de Santiago. He will try to raise money for two charities and wants to keep in touch with donors via a blog and possibly video diaries.
Book Review Essentialism - Greg McKeown After reading this book you will understand the importance of essentialism, have the ability to explore and understand what is most important to you, removing everything else, and keep non-essential things out of your life permanently.
Spring Cloud Featured Configuration with Spring Cloud Config Managing multiple applications and services across different environments can become easy with Spring Cloud Config.
Book Review Review: The Golden Ticket What problems cause even the most powerful computers difficulty? When should we settle for a best effort, using a heuristic algorithm rather than the absolute best result? How is all this worth one million dollars?
Blog Setup Adding Comments to a Ghost Blog Disqus is a third party that interacts seamlessly with Ghost to provide this functionality.
Blog Setup Setting Up a Test Ghost Site This post is about my approach to setting up a test site for my Ghost blog, a copy of the original, on a new, shared test server.
Blog Setup Comments, Ads and Product Endorsements Comments can add colour to post but may overpower it; ads provide potential revenue but can suffocate it; product endorsements can provide value but are sometimes misleading. This post tackles the presence or absence of each of these from this site.
Blog Setup Building a Ghost Blog Server This post acts more like a checklist of steps to complete when setting up a new Ghost Blog from a base Ubuntu installation. It focuses on doing so on a droplet provided by Digital Ocean, but could be adapted to any other provider.
Book Review Review: Algorithms to Live By Can problems that appear throughout computer science, many of which are well understood and solved help us in our daily lives? This book demontrates that this is defnitely so.
Test Driven Dates and Cucumber with Java Cucumber adds behavioural tests to Java but how it deals with dates as input variables poses a few issues. Here's how I worked around the issue.
On Writing Automate Prose Style Checking I've taken a programmer’s approach to proofreading by automating some basic styling checks which mimic the static code analysis tools available for most programming languages.
Blog Setup Mailgun for Outbound Email Emails from your new Ghost blog and domain are likely to get stuck in the junk folder of your recipients email account. Solve this problem using Mailgun.
Book Review Review: Deep Work by Cal Newport This book recommends cultivating the practice and skill of Deep Work; being able to concentrate absolutely and without distraction on the task, to achieve valuable and consistent results that most people cannot reach due to their difficulty.
Blog Setup Ghost Problems: Get the Latest Code Since I’m hosting my own version of the Ghost software on Digital Ocean, I am responsible for applying all the server and software updates. The Ghost team make regular releases, every few weeks it seems, and it doesn't take long to fall behind.
Blog Setup Problem with defaults on NGINX Be wary of default settings. They can cause confusing behaviour if you don’t fully understand the consequences, debugging can lead to wild goose chases and the solution is sometimes so trivial that the waste of time hurts.
Blog Setup Setting up a blog It's fairly straightforward to set up a blog such as this one. I'll go through the steps I took with some details about the decisions I made along the way.
