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install wordpress on ubuntu

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
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In this post I will provide instructions to install WordPress on ubuntu server.  This tutorial is aimed at those users who may want to install WordPress on a virtual server for development purposes.

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what is a RESTful API?

Modern Software applications are required to connect across different machines , User Interfaces (UI) and provide data to other applications in the form of services. To enable this software developers often create an Application Programming Interface (API). In this post I’ll provide an explanation of what is rest and how it can be used within your application. This article will discuss fundamentals of Web ReST API are the same regardless of software implementation platform.

Mixing windows & forms authentication

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
Latest posts by Gary Woodfine (see all)

I came across a situation today where I needed to mix two different authentication types on ASP.net MVC 4 application. The reason for this being… Read More »Mixing windows & forms authentication

The challenges of remote working

Remote working certainly does have its challenges but at the same time, it has its rewards. I thought I would take to opportunity to add my own perspective on the issues raised.

Install Mean.js on Macbook

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
Latest posts by Gary Woodfine (see all)

I have just set up my new mac book to carry out some mean.js development work. I had never set up a a mac to… Read More »Install Mean.js on Macbook

It’s not about being Agile, it’s about implementing practices that provide flexibility

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
Latest posts by Gary Woodfine (see all)

I have posted before about what is Agile Methodology,  but in this post I will discuss some of  the most common side effects and failures… Read More »It’s not about being Agile, it’s about implementing practices that provide flexibility

AngularJS Directives : Reusable components

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
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AngularJS Directives Speak to any developer who has used angular and ask him what is his favourite element of AngularJS, no doubt the answer would… Read More »AngularJS Directives : Reusable components

How not to do technical interviews

Interviews in any profession are notoriously difficult and lets be honest nobody either side of the desk likes going through the motions. This post is my opinion on why the process is fundamentally broken.

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How to check if schema exists in SQL server database before creating

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
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When writing SQL scripts it’s always a good idea to write them with the thought in mind that we will have to end up re-running… Read More »How to check if schema exists in SQL server database before creating

Change Magento Admin Url Magento 1.7.x

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
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This is a handy tip to help you protect your Magento backend against Hackers and brute-force attacks. I recommend you change the default URL to… Read More »Change Magento Admin Url Magento 1.7.x

Code Golf : Beware of taking your hobby to work

Gary Woodfine
Technical Director at threenine.co.uk
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
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I will aim to address the issue of over optimizing software code in enterprise software applications.  Looking for ways to optimize code and learning new… Read More »Code Golf : Beware of taking your hobby to work