About

My name’s Royston Hayward and the yward domain is a play on my last name giving me an email address – roystonh@yward.

A bit cheesy, but an amusing derivation and a good conversation starter. 😊

I’ve been in the IT industry & application development for 20+ years and part of a technological evolution beginning with programming languages in the likes of COBOL, JAVA, Pascal, FoxBase, PowerBuilder and Delphi on 16-bit 80286 microprocessor machines. Along came the Internet with eCommerce web development tools like PHP/JavaScript/CSS/MySQL and a number of frameworks & CMSes that elevated my programming and application development to a new level. Fast forward to the present, and my repertoire has been supplemented with an IT administration skill set that includes clustered hypervisors, backup/storage/email systems, firewalls, android development and container orchestration platforms such as K8s and Docker Swarm.

Linux(mostly Debian & its derivatives) is my base OS of choice which provides a slew of open-source software solutions that in turn offer up great opportunities to tweak, customize and redevelop.

I’ve had to address various project objectives requiring me go down Internet rabbit holes to get the right information for the task at hand. The pages on this site are an effort to document such endeavors and describe them as simple as I can. They also serve as my own personal repository of data-point references and the result of owning and operating an IT Services business & website. 😉

   – Royston Hayward