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Making a Nightlight - Lessons Learned
This project had a simple premise - make a touch-controlled night-light.
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Making
Try On The Tyne - Race Report
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Triathlon
2018-2019 Triathlon Season Review
It’s the end of the 2019 triathlon season for me, and I’m starting to shift focus towards winter training and next season, so now is a good time to look over this season.
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Triathlon
Fleetwood Sprint 2019 - Race Report
I think this one surprised me.
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Triathlon
Taking a Break From Pointy Sticks
Hi folks, I’ve been playing with pointy sticks now for … ohh a while. And I’ve been coaching it for … ohh, let’s also call it a while. And coaching pointy (and edged) sticks has brought me a significant amount of joy and growth - and hopefully I’ve been able...
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Fencing
Ripon Triathlon - Race Report
Ripon Standard Triathlon is held in the middle of Ripon Triathlon Weekend, a festival of racing with open water swims, standard and sprint distance tris, and finishing up with Tristars (juniors) on the Sunday. It’s a relaxed event, where you pull up your car or camper on the Friday, pitch...
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Triathlon
Deva Triathlon - Race Report
Deva was my first race at middle distance. It’s been a long journey getting here - in preparation I’ve been steadily building up training and the distance. I’ve done this race previously at olympic distance and enjoyed it immensely. For my money, it may be the best organised race on...
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Triathlon
Bolton Fun Triathlon - Race Report
Bolton Fun Triathlon is an event so close that I can have a lie in and still ride to the start line, neither thing I can do very often. A Sprint triathlon a week after Deva seemed like a good idea at the time, a nice “kick” back into life...
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Triathlon
Enable 32 Bits Apps in IIS from Octopus Deploy
We have a dependency to use 32 bit DLLs from some of our IIS deployments - notably Crystal Reports. Out of the box, Octopus Deploy doesn’t support this - IIS deployments will only be enabled for 64 bit mode. Add a powershell script to enable 32 bit mode post deploy:...
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