About Me
Over twenty years working in the IT world has given me an extensive knowledge of the industry and exposure to a large number of products, platforms, protocols and industries. From starting out in 1987 as a PL/1 programmer on IBM mainframes moving in to PC/LAN administration gaining essential hardware, software and networking skills as Netware progressed through the years and integrating with Windows NT, then being invited to take on UNIX administration whilst employed by a software house in 1995. Using SCO Unix and HP-UX, I was sent to various locations worldwide including the USA, Asia, Africa and Europe on behalf of a software house to install and troubleshoot complex containerization software systems.
From there I moved onto team management, being responsible for a team of 4 running a large HP-UX system for major shipping line. After a few years, the decision was made to offer my services independently working as a self-employed contractor, I have worked as a UNIX/Linux System Administrator, Web Developer, a Networking/PC/Windows/NT engineer and 2nd/3rd level support desk engineer for ISP’s, major electronics and IT companies and Financial houses.
For the past 7 years I have been living in Den Haag, the Netherlands with my wife and two young kids. At home I have an active interest in IT and computers, maintaining a home network comprising of a diverse range of operating systems and hardware platforms. I enjoy using computers on a daily basis for both personal and commercial multimedia and web based projects.

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Employment History
European Space Agency
Short term assignment to
- Provision VMware ESXi Server running multiple Linux VM’s on IBM X Series hardware
- Consolidate several physical servers to new VMWare platform
- Deploy Zabbix Enterprise wide monitoring solution
Lemonberry Web & Graphics Agency.
European Patent Office.
Thru Transport Systems International.
1994-1997
- F/M Manger.
- PC/LAN Manager.
Capital Cameras Ltd.
1988-1989
- Assistant Manager, sales.
Recent Blog Posts
Why PHP?
PHP is a strange and (let’s get it over with) ugly, little language. It’s not exceptionally fast. It’s not beautiful syntactically. It’s not formulated around a clear opinion. And it’s still what I write a lot of software in. The obvious question is: why? read more…
More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack
News has broken that a huge DDOS attack has been going on recently. Nothing new there, but what is different this time is that the XMLRPC interface of WordPress is being used as indirect source amplification vectors. read more…
Telegram – the smart persons’ choice
First I read of Whatsapp’s behaviour of rifling through the contacts on your phone, extracting details and sending them all back to HQ. Then the news breaks of Facebook’s $19 BILLION(!) purchase of Whatsapp so it’s time to find an alternative messaging system. read more…
3D print your own house
I love the idea of 3D printing a house. Imagine the possibilities… read more…
Javapocalypse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLsw8fkWQkU
WP-CLI
It’s typical… you spend ages writing scripts to manage WordPress installations… take a long time finding ways to detect if things need updating, looking for security holes etc. Then, months later after refining your scripts to perfection, you come across a tool that is perfect for the job and does much more besides. DOH! read more…
55+ Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks and Hacks
There’s a good article posted at wpbeginner.com today – a good list of WordPress tips, tricks and hacks. Even for a seasoned WordPress developer you’re bound to find something you didn’t know before… read more…
WordPress Shortcodes in Practical
Handy article from Smashing Magazine explaining how to create WordPress shortcodes. read more…
Building custom WordPress Widgets
A handy guide posted on tutsplus.com to show the process of building a widget. It’s even easier than developing plugins!
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/building-custom-wordpress-widgets–wp-25241