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  Running Windows 7 from an E-SATA Port

  After getting my current laptop (a few years ago now), I immediately installed Ubuntu. I have been using Ubuntu for a really long time, and had no real desire to use Windows. More recently though, there have been a few […]

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  Swift: Changing Push / Pop Animations in View Controllers

  I had a requirement to change the navigation animation moving from one view to another in a recent project – based on the newly loaded view being a kind-of external tool in the context of the app I was developing. […]

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  Bread Recipe: Chocolate Brioche Star

  This brioche was doing the rounds recently in a group that I am part of on Facebook, so I decided to give it a go myself. Having done so, and found it not to be too difficult, I thought I […]

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  Swift Development – Managing the Network Activity Indicator

  On iOS devices there is a little spinner on the status bar which can be used to communicate to the user that some form of network access is underway. Making use of this feature is as simple as:
  UIApplication.sharedApplication().networkActivityIndicatorVisible = true
  The problem […]

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  Congratulations, Rachel and Simon

  Congratulations to Rachel and Simon on their recent wedding. It was a real pleasure to be a part of their special day! Sheffield City Hall Wedding Sheffield City Hall Wedding

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  47cm Weber BBQ – Making Pizza

  I’ve had a Weber pizza stone for some time now and have spent some time trying to perfect pizza baking on my 47cm Weber kettle BBQ. I often found that my pizzas weren’t cooking all the way through or that […]

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  Yamaha RX-V375 Chromecast Music Playback

  This is a quick post based on some recent experiences with music playback from the Chromecast (and PS3) through an AV receiver and some of the issues I have come across.
  I recently decided to invest in an AV receiver and […]

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  Tom & Nina Tie the Knot

  Congratulations to Tom and Nina on their recent wedding. What a joy it was to be part of their amazing day and the continuation of their adventure together! […]

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  Daily Mail Feature

  One of the weddings I took photos at last year has been featured on the Daily Mail website. It’s petty cool to have been featured.
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2685774/Who-says-wedding-cost-earth-Meet-bride-dream-day-4-000-dress-paid-waiters-beer-instead-money.html
  The wedding, one which was featured in a blog post on here a while ago, was […]

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  Upgrading Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit to 14.04 64-bit (Dell XPS 15z)

  I’ve been running Ubuntu under 32-bit for a very long time – in fact, in all the years I have used Ubuntu, I have never installed a different architecture (unless you’re talking about Ubuntu server). Histirically, this has always been […]

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