I’ve now completed my third week of a new strength program. This program involves full-body training 3 times a week with squatting each session (!) and deadlifting once a week.
Until I read Practical Programming I didn’t know that bodybuilders were generally the only weight-lifters to squat once per week, or to “train legs” to use [...]
$WEB_CORP has taken on the maintenance contract of a particular site and the client has asked for some changes to be made along with fixing up some SQL injection vulnerabilities.
My first step was to GET all the site’s scripts via FTP so I could create a local DEV instance of it and was surprised to [...]
Johnny has kicked the wheel off and BLUG meetings are starting up again on the last Wednesday of the month, starting this evening at 6pm in The Tap House, Lower Crescent, just off Botanic Avenue, Belfast.
Some additional information is available on the BLUG Facebook group and on the Belfast Linux newsgroup.
See you there!
It’s nearly time to get your geek-on… Check out Andy’s blog for the skinny on BarCamp Belfast 2008.
I hope to see you all there!
I’ve just released the latest iteration of my “professional” site, stevenwilkin.com.
There’s the possibility the designers I’m working with will think my design-fu is weak, but the site badly needed something as it has been barely put to use in the years I’ve owned it.
I don’t know how the Steven Wilkin web experience will evolve but [...]
In my post on batch preparation of oats, written in response to Trent’s post, I mentioned that I also prepare the boiled eggs I enjoy for breakfast in advance.
At the weekend past I’d just boiled a saucepan of eggs, cooled them with cold water and put them into a tupperware box when I remembered my [...]
There have been times in my life when my job description could well have been best described as being a professional coffee drinker. These days however I’ve found gainful employment but continue to consume vast quantities of the stuff and even use coffee nomenclature to name my new *nix boxes.
During a caffeine-fueled session with my [...]
Monday was my first day as a developer with Creative Online Media and I must say it’s great to be wearing my coding hat again.
The culture-shock has been enormous: I’m not flooded with emails and phone calls all day, nor battling with bureaucracy and the people are really chilled-out. I don’t know myself!
The adjustment period [...]