My LibreOffice Writer Tutorials on Youtube

I created a bunch of video tutorials on YouTube for my university student daughters to help them with the general formatting, headings and numbering, captions, footnotes, references and bibliography tools that are built into LibreOffice. I created a playlist, which you can watch right here.My video tutorial series on LibreOffice Writer

Kent International Scout Jamboree (KIJ22)

For the third KIJ event in a row I have delivered and am supporting the Booking System. Launch happened on Saturday.

Project Launch

Had a brilliant reception from the big bosses at my place of work after I presented the launch presentation of my new project. Chuffed!

Kent International Scout Jamboree 2017

The Kent Scouts team of organizers have asked me again to author the online booking system for the jamboree. What an honour. This time, I decided that it would be best to write the booking system from scratch. It will be based on the same functionality that the 2013 booking system had, but will be …

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2 Year Anniversary

My two year anniversary has just passed for me at my place of work. During this time I have been getting busier and busier, especially since the company was bought by a multinational competitor. So far this has been a good and encouraging development, with more responsibility and travel to our new sister plants in …

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Selsted CEP School Website Upgrade

Started work to upgrade the Selsted CEP School website from the completely custom built (by me) current site to a nice new shiney Word press one. Found a suitable theme. Installed w/o and theme on my development box. Ported over some of the content. Played with creating the necessary menu and static pages. All looking …

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Helpdesk Ticketing System

Installed and configured a helpdesk ticketing system yesterday. I chose to use the free / open source application called osTicket.Seem to be quite neat and tidy and simple to use. Created my own logo using The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Package). Copied the file(s) to the relevent folder, modified the image tags in the header.inc.php …

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School Presentation.

Emily’s presentation about turtles went down a storm at school. She was asked to re-present in the other two classes. The head teacher has asked if it can be automated and made into a movie that can be embedded into the school website. The presentation was made in LibreOffice (OpenOffice) Impress on an OpenSUSE Linux …

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Scout KIJ2013 pages added.

Just got test versions of the scout “Kent International Jamboree” registration pages and PayPal integrated into WordPress on this server (See KIJ2013 -> Book Your Place in the menu). Now just need some testers.

Snowdown Band Site mention

The home of the Snowdown Colliery Welfare Band on the internet http://snowdownband.org