David Artiss
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  • VIP Support in Lisbon. Again.

    Visiting Lisbon 3 times for work obviously wasn’t enough. Or me going last August for a family holiday. So now I’m back, feeling like it was only yesterday. Come join me, for flight fun, food frolics and maybe some work related stuff in-between.

  • How WordPress works with nonces

    If you’re British, you probably just spat out your tea. If you’re not, and know your WordPress, then this post title may seem perfectly innocent. Because WordPress has a language problem.

  • Return to sender

    This week I’d ordered a small item from Ninja, which was coming via Royal Mail. I thought it odd that it was being delivered from the Northampton Delivery Office, which was no-where near me. Anyway, it was due for delivery on Thursday. An hour after the predicted delivery time I had a message to say…

  • Evri time – now I’ve had enough

    This week, a toilet paper delivery from Who Gives a Crap went awry. Evri sent me a message to say my latest delivery (a not-small box of toilet rolls) had been delivered. It hadn’t. 5 minutes later, my doorbell rings and it’s Evri, who hand over a very tatty box – damaged in various places,…

  • My proudest development moment

    6 years ago, I left the head office at Boots after nearly 30 in their IT department. I’ve not really spoken about my time there – some of it was being wary of “speaking bad” of a past employer but some of it was, genuinely, PTSD. A lot of my time there was not great.…