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Across the Double Negative product line there are a number of vitally important 'behind the scenes' processes which allow our applications to function smoothly. For example: * This blog is powered by the Ghost blogging platform. Ghost is a node application and as such behind the scenes it is

Recently I was suffering from a little bit of work induced burnout and as such I took the opportunity to step back from 12 hours of daily coding to attempt to reduce my knowledge debt and refactor our various products. At the most basic level this would involve updating and

phpv8 and php-v8 are different. Recently I chose to upgrade our servers to php7. At the same time it seemed appropriate to upgrade our Ubuntu installations to Xenial Xerus. Having upgraded to Xenial Xerus, installing php7 (with aptitude) was no issue. I did however have to reinstall the various PHP

I was recently asked to implement a subscription offering for a client on their web application. I was initially apprehensive based on the naive assumption that taking payments had to be complicated. Given that the client offers a single product at a single price and that the subscription is '

One of my favourite pieces of software is Sublime Text 3. It is my text editor of choice, and is well worth the cost given the number of hours I use it each and every day. I utilise Sublime in a rather simplistic way. It looks fantastic, and its syntax

It is understandable that one might view any post advocating working less as an attempted justification for laziness. Within 'software' however I personally feel that it is imperative that one takes a step back and looks at their time investments more pragmatically. This is a viewpoint shared by

Ghost version 0.9.0 has just been released, introducing awesome new functionality such as scheduled posting (which I am utilisng to post this :)). This is fantastic news, but I run three different self hosted ghost blogs and I only just updated to 0.8.1. Whilst updating Ghost isn&