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Paul is a freelance PHP developer and Linux system administrator based in Manchester, UK.

Moving unstaged changes to another branch in Git

Posted by By Paul January 23, 2019Posted inGit, Version ControlNo Comments
If you move around between different branches a lot in Git, you might find that you accidentally make some changes on the wrong branch and only realise this when it…
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Age of Empires II slow frame rates

Posted by By Paul January 12, 2019Posted inGamesNo Comments
One of my favourite games is Age of Empires II, which was re-released on Steam a few years ago with an expansion pack and changes to make it work on…
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Managing tax on self-employment income

Posted by By Paul January 11, 2019Posted inBusinessNo Comments
One of the biggest changes when you become self-employed is the fact that your tax isn't deducted at source; instead you have to file a tax return each year and…
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Automating WordPress updates with wp-cli

Posted by By Paul January 10, 2019Posted inWordPressNo Comments
For some time it's been possible to automatically update the core of WordPress, ensuring that you get the latest security and bug fixes promptly. However, this functionality hasn't been extended…
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Freelancing mistakes to avoid

Posted by By Paul January 7, 2019Posted inBusinessNo Comments
Over the course of the past few years as a freelancer I've made, and learned from, a number of mistakes. I cover these in my Life as a coin-operated monkey…
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Work/life balance lessons

Posted by By Paul January 4, 2019Posted inBusinessNo Comments
Over the course of 2018 I made a number of tweaks to how I work in order to try and obtain a better work/life balance. Most of them have been…
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Security support for PHP 5 ends this year

Posted by By Paul December 9, 2018Posted inPHP, SecurityNo Comments
If you have an application or hosting solution which was set up several years ago, there's a reasonable chance that you are still running PHP 5. Security support for 5.6,…
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Opening winmail.dat files from Outlook attachments

Posted by By Paul November 27, 2018Posted inEmail2 Comments
Occasionally I receive emails from people which have a single attachment named winmail.dat. After a bit of searching online, it turns out that Microsoft Outlook, depending on how it is…
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Git commits made directly to branch

Posted by By Paul November 27, 2018Posted inGit, Version ControlNo Comments
Sometimes in Git I'll need to synchronise a long-lived feature branch with master to reduce the likelihood of merge conflicts at a later date. One of the problems with doing…
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Advice from a computer science graduate

Posted by By Paul September 25, 2018Posted inUniversityNo Comments
In the coming weeks there will be an influx of new students starting their computer science degrees. I was in that situation 15 years ago when I started at the…
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