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Author: Rick Hurst
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Keep calm and carry some tools
A few days before christmas we headed off on the first long trip in Rocky since buying him. The cross-country trip from our home town of…
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Rocky, our VW T25 Campervan
In September 2012, we bought Rocky, a 1983 VW T25 Devon moonraker campervan. The T25 (also known as a T3 across most of europe), is the…
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Back on the road
I’ve reinstated my travel/ mobile working/ camping blog, using the latest version of eatStatic blog software.
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Learning to touch type properly
So, one of my goals for this year was to learn to touch type. I pretty much ignored this goal until last week, when I opened…
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Another flat-file driven blog/ cms engine on the block
I’ve just been looking at Statamic, which is a markdown-driven CMS and blog, self-hosted and written in PHP. It’s commercial rather than open-source, but at a…
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Getting back on the road!
Last year I shut down this blog and incorporated the content into my web development/ techie blog, but I’ve decided to resurrect “Rick on the Road”.…
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Sub-optimal web content workflow used by many agencies
I’ve worked at a fair few agencies in my time, and despite most agencies now using content management systems as standard, the content population and revision…
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Pushing a local git repo to a bare remote
Often I create a git repo locally, but then want to push it to a remotely hosted repo. On the server, create a folder and move…
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Analysis of my social media usage
Over the last couple of years i’ve tried to rationalise the way I use various social media sites, and I realised that how I use a…
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A few notes on image uploading and configuration in Django
I recently added image uploading to Too Old To Skate, and not having set up a “normal” django site for a while, hit about every stumbling…
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Learning by Teaching (a crash course in Backbone.js)
On Wednesday, the day after my lightning talk at the Django meetup, I gave a talk “An introduction to Backbone.js“, at a newly formed javascript meetup,…
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DBBUG lightning talks June 2012
On tuesday Potato Bristol hosted the Django Bristol and Bath User Group (DBBUG) lightning talks. It went really well and it was nice to have some…