Author Archives: Ben

The DevOps of Music: Part 1 – Learning through Experience

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Ben

Learning through experience in DevOps and music. Continue reading →

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DevOps Reading List

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Ben

The first things to read if you’re just starting out in DevOps. Continue reading →

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Controlling Family Screen Time – Part 2

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Ben

Controlling your family network. Continue reading →

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Limiting Family Screen Time in Windows 10 – Part 1

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Ben

Windows 10 has an administrative feature you can use to limit screen time for any account. This feature has the following limitations: It only works on the hour. You have to say 9am-5pm, not 09:30-17:30 It only works on the … Continue reading →

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VirtualBox Networking Lab

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Ben

Lessons learnt from Brian Linkletter’s excellent lab tutorial. Continue reading →

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London Heathrow to Frankfurt on Luthansa – Airport Hacks

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Ben

A highly situational list – but it might help someone! [1] (FRA) Boarding Pass Check Dodge Due to the airport only having two electronic boarding pass scanners in Hall B, which often break down, long queues can build up while … Continue reading →

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API Banking – 10 Bank Developer Portals

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Ben

In no particular order … UK Market (Open Banking) [1] HSBC https://developer.hsbc.com/ [2] RBS #BankOfAPIs Developer Portal https://developer.bluebank.io/ [3] Barclays https://developer.barclays.com/ [4] Lloyds Bank Developer Portal https://developer.lloydsbank.com/ [5] Halifax https://developer.halifax.co.uk/opendata-v2 European Market (PSD2) [6] Nordea Developer Portal https://developer.nordeaopenbanking.com/app/docs [7] ING … Continue reading →

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REST API Design – A Beginner’s Reading List

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Ben

There’s no better place to start than Steve Yegge’s post, where he dicusses the Jeff Bezos memo that kicked off the service architecture revolution at Amazon: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX The RESTful cookbook is a your next stop – an easy to digest … Continue reading →

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Bluff Your Way in Enterprise Architecture

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Ben

Being an architect is hard work. Given how small the population of people willing to do hard work is, it might be a little mysterious to you how many people manage to wangle ‘architect’ into their job titles*, but how few know … Continue reading →

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Infrastructure as Code – Key Terms

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Ben

There’s an excellent introductory series on Terraform over at Gruntwork, and apart from anything else it has a very clear introduction to what the different tools in this space do. I recommend the blog, but here’s a quick summary of … Continue reading →

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