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Installing/configuring Dokku Dokku aims to be a simple Heroku-like PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) that you can use to run your applications on your own server. For the purposes of this guide, we'll use a new Ubuntu 16.04 1GB RAM instance from Civo.com which is a…
Wednesday 20th/Thursday 21st This year I went back to Korea to attend the Instructor Course at Kukkiwon again, but this time I took 4 students with me. Our trip started with four of us (one is joining us later) travelling to Incheon international airport from…
I think most people that know me are aware I got started in Taekwondo because I was being bullied at school. I was bullied in junior school (6-11 years old ish) and was bullied from 11-13 years old at senior school (even though I was told that it would be a di…
Since I got my 1st Dan back in 1990, I've had a variety of belts. When I passed my black belt, my instructor gave me a lovely embroidered belt with my name in Korean on one end and Pan Taekwondo in Hanja (Chinese characters) on the other. Then I went through…
While contracting at Which? Ltd I wrote a library in Ruby to access REST APIs in a very flexible, almost ActiveRecord style. This was agreed (after long discussions with the legal department) to be released as open source. Unfortunately after leaving Which? th…