The thankfully infrequent ramblings of another guy on the internet.

Drupal to Wordpress

I’ve been using Drupal to build websites for years now. I’ve used it for a few of my own sites, and for a number of client sites. Since version three point something I’ve been comfortable with it’s often weird ways and always been able to…

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Long before the term "social media" was coined, people didn't use the likes of Facebook, Twitter or Instagram to get their content out. Instead we set up blogs. Whilst considered quaint by todays yoof, I prefer them as while it might take slightly more effort to add…

Synology Packt Book Grabber

Over the years I've bought a fair few of Packt Publishing's IT books - they're pretty good. Somehow though, I managed to remain blissfuly unaware of their free book a day thingy until recently.

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

It's very good at it's main aim, which is getting people to visit their site frequently. But I'm forgetful so it's best for all concerned if a computer does that for me, and claims my free daily book.

As well as being forgetfull I'm also pretty lazy so I looked for a pre-existing solution, and found this:

https://github.com/draconar/grab_packt

Here's how to install it on a Synology DS115J NAS