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I'm Alan, a principal consultant at Fullworks Digital Ltd, a web development / cloud systems consultancy

My day job consists of looking into clients' businesses systems and sorting out their technology and often managing the implementation of change. The focus being leveraging the cloud primarily through the Google business applications (Google Apps for Work) as well as a significant amount or WordPress work.

I started as a professional programmer in 1979 and had been involved with the IT of business technology in virtually every area that exist.

My personal blog is my aide memoire of the many interesting facts that I come across. As I spend a lot of time gathering parts of solutions from the internet and assembling them into my own solutions, and also just learning how to do things, this blog is primarily my 'note book' and a way of giving something back to the online community that has helped me extensively.