Tony is a Geek

A previously mentioned, I have purchased pre-assembled Z80-MBC3 and RC2014 electronics boards and components, waiting for "that" rainy day to come along.... Well, yesterday was that day, and boy did it rain!  Today, however, lovely sunshine and blue skies.  It's early and I'm killing time until I can go and pick up my Jaguar STR, after she's had some bodywork repairs done by an expert/professional.  Don't know what one of those is? click here. very rare actually, they only made 129 in the '07 year and there is probably about 30 left on the road.  As the paperwork says, "it was the fastest production road car when it was released.  faster than any supercars out there...", food for thought, huh? anyway, side-tracked. So, I have a couple of Z80 CPU based computers I'm going to build - except, they are new, but they are old, retro-vintage, if you like.  What's a Z80, you ask? (then you must be <40yrs old), here you go: Basically, without ...

Whilst building my ACE! app - I needed to be able to upload images for the events / presentations / speakers and attendees. I thought, hey, that's simple, we've been doing this on normal web-servers for decades, I'll just write a server-side php page (a couple of lines of code) that saves the posted files to a folder and then I'll know the URL to reference them.  Sorted! I should have it all finished before the kettle has finished boiling for my cup of tea. Then I pondered for a bit.  How does this now work in the PaaS world (Clouds like IBM Bluemix, Google AppEngine, Amazon, that Microsoft one, etc...).  Ah, not such a simple solution now.  But a challenge.  Whilst drinking my cup of tea, I then set about making this work on IBM Bluemix. Here's a Slides.com presentation of how I made this work for me: