Jonathan Jones homepage: planetjones.net

After years of half-hearted attempts, I passed the telc German A2 and Zurich KDE exams.

One more dive into history with the 2009 edition of The Rough Guide to the Internet.

Trip report from our trip to the UK taking in London, Derbyshire, Troon and Edinburgh including golf, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and many restaurants.

Food and drink reviews from our 8 night stay at Walt Disney World, Orlando in 2025 including table service restaurants, buffets, and quick service options.

Trip report of our visit to Orlando for a stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge (Jambo House) and visits to every Disney World park: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot and Hollywood Studios.

The Isle of Arran is the Scottish island I have visited most often.

Using Zapier’s free plan I attempt to automatically trigger the Github action workflow which publishes this website, whenever I add a new Out of Ten review to my Notion database.

My second trip report to Edinburgh - this time it was for the mini zookeeper experience at Edinburgh Zoo, a visit to Edinburgh Castle and the adjacent Camera Obscura.

Tobermory was the filming location for the Balamory children’s TV show.

Three night trip review of London - including afternoon tea at Claridges, Buckingham palace summer opening, Chinatown dumplings and a great boat trip down the Thames with the Thames Clipper / Uber boat.

Prepare to be transported back in time as I delve into one of my all-time favorite books from my teenage years: The Rough Guide 2.0: The Internet & World Wide Web.

An overview of how I migrated planetjones.co.uk to planetjones.net including a custom Hugo theme using Bootstrap, rendering my out of ten reviews from Notion and publishing automatically using Github Actions.

App Engine.

Everyone is talking cloud native.

A winter weekend break to Copenhagen - home of the Little Mermaid and many fantastic restaurants.

With ten days to enjoy Spain we eventually succeeded in buying a Renfe Spain pass and made our way to Madrid and Seville.

A 60 hour visit to Edinburgh, our old hunting ground during the August festival season.

A visit to London was long overdue - so we headed for 72 hours of sightseeing, tourist attractions and to stuff our faces full of food!

Many websites / internet services are now offering their content in local languages - but the way this internationalization is implemented can cause frustration and annoyance to those whose only language is English.

Google’s App Engine now provides Endpoints, which offer a simple way to create RESTful services for clients.

The WebSphere Liberty Profile is built for developers - here I take the beta of the Next profile for a spin - using Intellij on the iMac, a new set-up for me.

Reviews of the food and drink venues we enjoyed in Manhattan, New York City during our November 2012 trip to the Big Apple.

Brief write-up of our day trip to see Disneyland Paris - unfortunately minus Mickey Mouse and any of the other characters.

Write up of our food and drink experience in Paris, from our May 2012 visit.

A 10 day trip to Hungary’s capital Budapest and a 3 night trip to Heviz, a town near Lake Balaton which is home to Europe’s largest outdoor thermal lake.

A week long trip in May 2008 trip to Scotland’s Isle of Skye, where we were fortunate enough to get great weather!