Code Buckets

Buckets of code

Why I’m using Digital Ocean

I’ve been writing bits and pieces of code and side projects for years now – it’s the fun side to professional development. Recently I’ve tidied up some of the projects and got them published to live where they can roam…

Buddhist Texts API: Dhammapada

A while ago I was looking for an API which provided Buddhists Texts and I couldn’t finda good one – so I’ve created one myself and published it. I’ve started with the Dhammapada which is pretty much the most well-known…

Where’s Kitty

After many months of intensive research, user testing and damn clever coding I have produced the ground-breaking gaming experience of Where’s Kitty – available online. Click here to play. Rules 20 Kittys have hidden themselves under the grid. It’s your…

Deploying Asp.Net Core and MySQL into Linux Docker Containers – and Populating the Database

I’ve written an .Net Core API that I want to deploy out. I want to use all open-source software so it’s going to be using a MySQL database and be hosted on a Linux box somewhere. The Task I want…