Blogging

From WordPress to Jekyll

Mar 30, 2015

If you are a return visitor to my blog you might have noticed that it recently became faster - quite a bit faster, actually. This is because I finally put in the effort to migrate from WordPress to Jekyll. This blog is now entirely hosted on Amazon S3 and served via Amazon Cloudfront.

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2013 – A year in review

Dec 18, 2013

This is my annual ‘year in review’ post for 2013. I always enjoy looking back at these posts and seeing a summary of my year.

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A Responsive Redesign

Apr 23, 2013

I’ve finally decided to do the responsible thing and implement a responsive design for my blog.

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2012 – A year in review

Dec 19, 2012

This is my ‘year in review’ post for 2012. I did a similar one last year (for the first time) and I found it really interesting looking back on it a year later. I’ll probably end up doing one every year going forward.

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2011 – A year in review

Dec 23, 2011

This is my attempt at a ‘year in review’ blog post – you know, the type of post that everyone says you shouldn’t do but still end up doing themselves.

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How to start a Programming Blog

Dec 13, 2011

I started my blog a little over 2 years ago. I based most of my decisions in terms of blogging platform, hosting and domain names on 2 articles – Be Your Start-up by Jay Fields and Starting a Programming Blog by William Shields. (If you are intending to start a programming blog those are still excellent reads)

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New job, New blog

Dec 12, 2011

So my first month at ThoughtWorks has come and gone. I’ve also decided that I no longer like the look of my blog and did a complete redesign, which in the end resulted in me moving my entire blog to a new platform.

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Blog Redesign

Dec 16, 2010

I spent the best part of last night and today changing the design of my blog.  As I’ve said before, I’m really not a CSS kind of guy, and what I thought would be an hour or so worth of work turned into a whole day’s effort.  It’s safe to say I’ve just about had my fill of CSS for the year.

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First

Jun 11, 2009

So I’ve decided to start a blog.

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