Whilst working with Amazon's object storage S3 service recently, it occurred to me that there were a lot of different options for encrypting objects in your buckets, and that people new to the service or AWS might find it difficult to understand the differences between them or know which one to use. There are two … Continue reading Understanding AWS S3 Encryption
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I've spoken to a few people working in tech recently who aren't entirely sure how this whole "virtualisation" thing works and don't know that much about it, so I've decided to write an introduction to it that hopefully contains enough info to give someone new to the field a good grounding in the basics. What … Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide To Virtualisation
Last week, I headed down to London for the 2018 AWS Summit. AWS Summits are free events that Amazon run to try and educate people about their cloud, and the benefits of running your workloads on it. Hosted at the ExCeL in the Docklands, I believe the London summit is the largest in the EU … Continue reading AWS Summit London 2018
Lots of people don't seem to fully understand Object Oriented programming, so I decided to write this series where I would do my best to explain it in a simple fashion that's suitable for both programming beginners and people who are just getting started with Object Oriented (OO) programming. I'll assume for these posts that you can … Continue reading Object Oriented Programming: Getting Started
Whilst Chromebooks are great as the majority of people’s casual usage machines, sometimes you might need to do work that needs a proper desktop program. One example of this is Visual Studio, and I decided to see if I could find a way to use this on my Chromebook. Obviously, you can’t just install it, … Continue reading Using Windows Programs on a Chromebook
I wrote my original Series 3 Chromebook review after just over a week of casual usage. Now, after nearly 6 months, I’m going to go back to it and follow up on my original points. Hardware I’ve now used the Chromebook every day since the beginning of January, and it turns out it’s a lot … Continue reading Samsung Series 3 Chromebook Follow-up Review
When you buy an Android smartphone, you usually don’t have much of a clue as to when or if it will receive software updates. Sometimes this isn’t a big concern for an end user, but to others it is important that they’re running the latest software on their device. For Android users, this is where … Continue reading How to speed up an old Android phone
The Chromebook has been around for a few years now, but early models were not widely available and their need for a constant internet connection somewhat hamstrung them into less capable devices than they could potentially be. With the new Series 3 Chromebook from Samsung, combined with the latest Aura update for Chrome OS, all … Continue reading Samsung Series 3 Chromebook Review
Most people will have heard of music search apps - apps like Shazam - and a lot of you probably use them on your own device. But how many of you have just stuck with the first app you found, without wondering if there are any that might work better for you out on the … Continue reading Group Test: Music Search Apps
At the recent Ekoparty security conference, it was revealed that several Samsung devices are vulnerable to a malicious exploit where the phone can be wiped and reset back to factory defaults. The devices that are vulnerable are the ones that run Touchwiz - popular handsets like the Galaxy S3, Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Ace for … Continue reading How an NFC Tag Could Wipe your Samsung phone
