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Coding

Windows Docker Container with PHP, Apache and MariaDB

The new year saw me refreshing one of my popular development stacks. My main system is Windows 10 (2004) and for some project work, I use Docker to enable the use of specific versions of PHP with MariaDB and Apache. I decided to update one of my stacks to more recent versions, including an updated docker base image. For this…

Howards Camera Eye from Infinity Chamber

Entertainment

Infinity Chamber – Film

Infinity Chamber is an excellent independent Sci-Fi film in the great dystopian traditional of man versus machine. In this case, it is a take on AI where the main protagonist, Frank, is detained in a fully automated prison. Set within Frank’s cell he engages with the AI persona, known as Howard, who is Frank’s Life Support Officer. Frank is not…

General

The Impressive Success of WordPress

Did you know that WordPress is said to be powering over a third of the web? WordPress’ domain (pun intended) over how content is managed, organised and displayed to web users is impressive. According to w3techs.com in November 2020, its success was highlighted with 39% of the top 10 million web sites they monitor were all using WordPress. Let that…

Coding

Named Arguments and Union Types in PHP 8.0

I am itching to get my hands dirty on PHP 8.0 that was released last week. Unfortunately, I cannot make the big jump immediately but there are some language improvements that I am looking forward to using. New to PHP 8 are Named Arguments and Union Types. Named Arguments As an example, function htmlspecialchars only requires the first parameter. The…

The word blog spelt out with scrabble tiles

General

Adventures in Technology Blog, Getting Started with “Hello World”

Welcome to my first blog article. On the whole, this blog will be about various adventures in technology. It will include thoughts, experiments, general enjoyment and cool stuff relating to the world of information, communication and technology. My personal adventure with technology and especially the love of coding started 40 years ago with a friends ZX81. By today’s standards, it…