2020 review of the year
Despite the general chaos, I've been luckier than most in that my business hasn't been badly affected in 2020. I've had chance to learn some new skills, improve my admin,…
Sympl migration and management services
This year I've been paying close attention to Sympl, a project which makes it easier to manage website and email hosting by providing sensible default configurations and automating some of…
Advent of Code: 2015 – Day 02
Part 1 Problem: Calculate the surface area of a list of boxes, including slack (the area of the smallest side). Solution: Read in each line of the input file and…
Advent of Code: 2015 – Day 01
Part 1 Problem: Starting at zero, move up one floor for every '(' and down one floor for every ')'. Solution: Read in the input one character at a time…
Changing the timezone in Debian Buster
I recently spun up a couple of virtual servers with the Mythic Beasts provisioner, which didn't give me the option of selecting my timezone. As a result the servers were…
osTicket and Vagrant
osTicket is a self-hosted and open source ticketing system written in PHP. I wanted to give it a try as one option for a client's support needs, but with a…
Project Euler: Problem 8
Problem: Find the largest product of any 13 adjacent digits in a 1000 digit number. Solution: Move through the 1000 digit number with a sliding window of 13 digits. For…
Pretty print XML in PHP
As part of my freelance work I send data to APIs, often using XML for data transfer. I log the XML sent and received for debugging and auditing, however the…
Project Euler: Problem 7
Problem: What is the 10,001st prime number? Q. How do we find the nth prime number?A. Build a Sieve of Eratosthenes large enough to contain the nth prime number. Q.…
Project Euler: Problem 6
Problem: Find the difference between the sum of the square of the first 100 natural numbers, and the square of the sum of the first 100 natural numbers. Solution: PHP…