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My name is Joseph D’Souza, and I’m a web developer.

Like all Mardy gits, I must moan about all that ails me. So, this is my blog about web development, my general life, my dreams and everything that crushes those dreams.

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Cost versus Effort, an important lesson for self-employed

Business Career ExperiencesJune 15, 2022June 15, 2022

Early on in my career I worked for a company that developed bespoke websites and software. Almost all the internal systems and processes were bespoke developments. In each instance the process complimented the solution and vice versa. When I was asked to create a solution that would generate a word document for new projects from […]

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I’m never using VPS hosting again and you shouldn’t either

Experiences HostingMarch 24, 2022March 24, 2022

I’ve never really thought about it, but I suppose I have some slightly old school tendencies when it comes to my web development practices. I consciously try not to become stale by immersing myself in new technologies and trying out the latest trends when I can, but somethings just seem to slip through. Virtual Private […]

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How to avoid Pride and Prejudice

Life Style Random ReadingFebruary 5, 2022June 15, 2022

I very much like to do things that I like, and I don’t like doing the things that I don’t. However, I also don’t like not liking things without good reason, so I try to consciously contradict myself just to try something I think I’ll dislike. It’s confusing, but bear with me. In the end […]

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This is how we learnt HTML for free in 1999

Learning Web DevelopmentFebruary 1, 2022January 31, 2022

Every now and then the quirky website I learned HTML from pops into my mind and whenever I Google it, I find that it still exists and remains unchanged. Not even one update since 1999. Don’t you dare ask if it’s mobile compatible. I don’t know why someone has kept it going. It’s not actually […]

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Atomic Deployments: The new name for an old practise

DeployHQ Deployment Web DevelopmentJanuary 26, 2022January 25, 2022

What the hell are Atomic Deployments, I hear you ask? Good question and I have recently asked the same question myself. The answer is much simpler to explain and perhaps you are already intimately familiar with the process. The strategy is to employ a deployment pattern which uploads a fresh copy of the website to […]

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Rather than be beautiful, PHP chose to be a hot mess

Coding Style Moaning PHPJanuary 19, 2022January 31, 2022

At university I studied primarily in C# .NET and have been working as a professional .NET web developer since 2010. Described as an object-orientated and type-safe language, there is an awful lot of discipline to how the framework has been set out. From a developers perspective it becomes second nature to identify patterns of the […]

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That one not so awesome Stackoverflow answer

Moaning Web DevelopmentJanuary 10, 2022January 17, 2022

Like all web developers Stackoverflow is part of my week-daily life. If you haven’t heard of it, then it’s a website where you can post a “question” asking for help with a technical problem. Members from the community who can help will answer, and because the site is administered according to a strict set of […]

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