Category Archives: Blog
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Running Windows 7 from an E-SATA Port
Posted on July 8, 2015 by Duncan in Blog, Tech.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 instances where I have wanted to make use of Windows, and simply running in VirtualBox […]
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Swift: Changing Push / Pop Animations in View Controllers
Posted on January 20, 2015 by Duncan in Blog, Software.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. There seem to be a very small selection of animations available to view navigation, namely: […]
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Bread Recipe: Chocolate Brioche Star
Posted on January 10, 2015 by Duncan in Blog, Bread Blog, Food.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 would share my recipe and technique. You can play with and alter the filling as […]
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Swift Development – Managing the Network Activity Indicator
Posted on January 8, 2015 by Duncan in Blog, Software.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 comes if you have an app which has a number of asynchronous tasks […]
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Congratulations, Rachel and Simon
Posted on October 24, 2014 by Duncan in Blog, Photography.Congratulations to Rachel and Simon on their recent wedding. It was a real pleasure to be a part of their special day!
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47cm Weber BBQ – Making Pizza
Posted on October 17, 2014 by Duncan in Blog, Food.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 the base was a little soggy despite the top being cooked. This, in addition to […]
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Yamaha RX-V375 Chromecast Music Playback
Posted on September 30, 2014 by Duncan in Blog, Tech.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 based on the options available went for the Yamaha RX-V375. I was actually looking […]
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Tom & Nina Tie the Knot
Posted on August 25, 2014 by Duncan in Blog, Photography.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
Posted on July 9, 2014 by Duncan in Blog, Photography.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 for a friend and was quite an experience, taking me all the way […]
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Upgrading Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit to 14.04 64-bit (Dell XPS 15z)
Posted on June 15, 2014 by Duncan in Blog, Tech.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 because, when doing clean installs, Ubuntu 32-bit has always been the recommended option. More recently […]
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