So what have I learnt....

Cats and computing in perfect harmony!

I have now written two posts tackling something quite specific for which there probably is quite a limited audience. Well the audience is zero at time of writing!  :) Has this been wasted time? Well actually far from it.

Trying to explain and present something makes you think extra hard about what you do and gives you a much better understanding for how things work. I often find at work, that once you have made something work you are inevitably focusing on the next stage, not feeling that there is enough time to go back and dive deeper into a specific feature. However when you are trying to explain it to someone else you have to at least try and figure out how and why you did certain things and inevitably you find you understand things better afterwards. And who knows someone might even suggest an even better way of doing it.

When I now encounter problems at work that either I can't figure out straight away or even after searching the web is not particularly obvious, I think whether it might be worth writing another post and straight away I feel more motivated to try and understand what is happening rather than just randomly trying things until it magically works.

So even if not many people will read my posts (and hey ho if I'm the only person reading them to remind me next time I encounter the same issue) then the worst thing that can happen is that more server space gets filled up with more data. And honestly lets face it, it would be filled up with pictures of cats anyway!