Zoneminder – a love/hate relationship
I have something of a love/hate relationship with Zoneminder. On the plus side, it’s probably the most comprehensive and full featured open source CCTV system for Linux…
Rebuilding my home server
Have you ever had the urge to reinstall a machine from scratch? Maybe you’ve found a better way to do something and feel a clean install would be a good idea?
Samsung challenge: Galaxy Buds
Not exactly the Samsung software challenge, but hardware this time. I’m reviewing the Galaxy Buds that came as a freebie with my S10+ pre-order…
Finance Project 7: Starting the UI
When I’m building web apps I like to get the look and feel in place while I’m developing…
Samsung software challenge: payments
When I got the S10+, I decided to go all in on Samsung software for a while. First up for analysis is contactless payment using Samsung Pay…
The demise of Google+
Google has a habit of discontinuing products and services, from Reader, the RSS manager to the short lived Google Buzz. There are many, many more…
Galaxy S10+ first impressions
For a while now I’ve wanted a phone with multiple cameras, so it was probably inevitable that I’d get the S10 when it came out…
The Django class war
When I wrote the first view for my application it was written as a function. If you follow the Django tutorial, it recommends switching to generic views using classes…
A digression into Git
At the moment I’m the sole developer working on my finance project and I can’t see that changing. It’s very much a learning exercise…
Finance Project 6: Managing the data
I have a basic data model, so now I need a way to enter data…