herb miller
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Computing not Chemistry at Imperial College
My best subject was school was Chemistry. But I changed my mind during my ‘gap year’ at IBM and chose to study Computing Science at Imperial.
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August 2, 2021 -
On reaching IBM retirement age ( 63 )
At the age of 63 I am now winding down towards full retirement from paid work in four years time.
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August 2, 2021 -
43 years in IT
43 years ago, at the tender age of 16 years and 11 months, I entered the IT industry. My salary was £1690 per annum; £65 a fortnight.
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August 2, 2021 -
bucket list – WordCamp London: 17-19 March 2017 (#wcldn)
I’m volunteering again at WordCamp London. I have a shorter bucket list for 2017 than I did in previous years. Basically, I need to find some paid work.
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March 14, 2017 -
Celebrating 2 years of WP-a2z.org with a long overdue upgrade
For a while now, I’ve been developing a replacement for my WP-a2z Dynamic API Reference. Today, just over two years after wp-a2z.org was first revealed, I’ve switched over to the new version. Here are some notes about the new version.
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July 9, 2016 -
Google Maps once again requiring an API key
I’ve been porting a site from Drupal to WordPress recently but it wasn’t until I loaded it onto hosting with 1&1 that I noticed some problems with my [bw_show_googlemap] shortcode. I’ve fixed the problem in oik v3.0.2. The new solution requires you to obtain a Google Maps API key, and enter it in oik options.
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June 27, 2016 -
40 years ago today: me, IBM and Caravan
At the tender age of just short of 16 years and 11 months, I received confirmation of my first full time employment. Starting on the 30th June, I would be employed as a vacation student, in the ROSS users group, part of RESPOND at IBM Havant. 4 years later, having studied computing science at Imperial College, and working my summer holidays in various roles in operations departments, I was re-employed full time as an IMS / PL/I programmer. I celebrated 25 years in 2004. Had I not left in 2009, I would now be in my 37th year.
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June 25, 2015 -
bucket list – post WordCamp London 2015
I attended WordCamp London 2015 from 20th – 22nd March. Prior to the event I wrote my bucket list for things to achieve before I left. Now I have an even longer list of things to do. If you want to help me complete my bucket list, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Abbreviated version: work on www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/oik-clone-clone-your-wordpress-content/ before (nearly) all the others in the list. Full version:
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April 8, 2016 -
H2GD Part 42: Battling 100% CPU performance issues
I’ve had some performance issues on one of my sites. In this post I discuss some of the solutions to the problems; determining the cause, then applying the pragmatic fix.
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March 16, 2015 -
bucket list – WordCamp London: 20-22 March 2015 (#wcldn)
WordCamp London 2015 ( Twitter hashtag #wcldn ) promises to be a great weekend.
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April 8, 2016
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