Covid 2020 and beyond
Not many of us would have predicted that 2020 would start off as a once in a century plague that essentially crippled the world. Unlike Halley’s Comet -which was another…
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Mutual SSL authentication
Introduction When the web was in it’s infancy, data security was of little concern. Businesses were still trying to figure out what the web could be used for beyond a…
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Gillette: Making men their best?
The new Gilette ad that has been doing the rounds on the internet has been creating quite a stir. I don’t need to describe it, but in broad strokes it…
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Docker: Access to DialectResolutionInfo cannot be null when ‘hibernate.dialect’ not set
I came across this problem when dockerizing a Springboot application. A number of people have also come across this issue and the answers given weren’t all that helpful. com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications…
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What happens to old data?
Of all the buzzwords in IT “Big Data” is one that irks me the most. There has always been the concept of large volumes of data (think banking) before we…
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Watching sports
I’ve just started work at a new place. This time I’ve moved away from the financial industry and have found myself in the exciting world of TV broadcast! One of…
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First eBook published on Amazon!
I have released my first ever eBook! It’s called “Bitcoin and Altcoins: A cryptocurrency primer”. I’ve been working on it on-and-off since August 2017. You can find it on Amazon…
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Alice Cooper concert review
I’m going to start this off by saying that I’m not a heavy metal guy; and this is not typically the type of concert I’d go to. Anyway, it just…
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