The combined Tweetup and Redhill Micropreneurs social in Reigate this month was an excellent and enjoyable evening.
It was attended by about 20 local people, mostly with some kind of small business. Some were full time (or parent time) on that business while for others it's currently a sideline.
Just a few of the walks of life (and businesses ...
St Joseph's Primary School (map) is having it's Summer Fayre on the 27th June from 12noon and everyone is welcome. Entrance for adults is £1, children are free; and there are some great things to see, do, eat and enjoy.
TV's Will Mellor (Hollyoaks, Two Pints, White Van Man, In The Club, No Offence) will ...
I'm working on creating a local group for freelancers, small businesses and other home workers based in and around Redhill and Reigate. So far I've ...
I live in Redhill, Surrey. I'm working on building a freelance and micropreneur group in Redhill.
There is an excellent freelancers group that meets weekly in Brighton (which I visit occasionally). There are also many, many entrepreneur and freelancer groups that exist in London. There are also co-working groups around, the nearest of those I can find being Horsham ...
Yesterday I set myself a writing challenge, as suggested by Dan Norris, dedicating the working day to creating new content and attempting to produce 10,000 words.
Today I want to reflect on the challenge, see how I did and whether it was useful for me.
Trying to write 10,000 words (complete with proof reading and editing ...
It is with some slight discomfort that I must admit to having sat down on my bed (well my wife's actually, but what's hers is mine, yes?!) one evening last November to hear a loud cracking sound. I don't believe that I sat down particularly heavily on this occasion; in fact I had just put my youngest ...
The title may sound like a foregone conclusion but this is actually very much a challenge, an experiment for me really.
I have made today a content writing day. The idea for having a dedicated content writing day on this particular day came from Dan Norris who's using it as an experiment for a book he's ...
The first Grails 3 pre-release went live a few days ago.
Soon after I updated my super simple grails download and launch script (on github) with the new download locations and other small tweaks for Grails 3 support. Grab the updated script from github then try out Grails 3 with:
grails 3.0.0.M1 create-app my-test-app
Grails 3 comes ...
Some while ago now, I considered the question of Grails vs Django as my web development framework of choice. Since then I've created a few Django web applications. I've also continued to work on several Grails based projects, new and old.
So with fresh battle experience of both frameworks I thought I'd revisit my previous thoughts to ...
This approach is useful for testing all sorts of changes in boot setup without actually risking a real reboot. Whether you're about to remove a hard disk, just want to test RAID with disk failures, have installed a new boot loader or just changed the configuration; this can help provide reassurance that your remote server will come back when ...