It’s always nice to see something you have spent time developing being used in production.
A while ago I read an excellent blog post from Timothy Fitz called Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day, that got me started on trying to improve the way we deploy our websites at UKFast but [...]
Archives for Technology
Information and randomness on technology related to what I do.
Automated deployment using Subversion
Network Monitoring System – Demo
Well since the post I made about Alternative Nagios software generated a bit of interest (well, one comment is a bit for this blog ), it made me want to try out the software mentioned again to see how it fairs against Nagios which has been my monitoring software of choice for a considerable [...]
Nagios alternatives, are there any?
Comparing a few of the network monitoring applications available.
Adobe online ToU!!
I blogged about the new Adobe online system that went live recently. However a lot of users have noticed a small large problem with the ToU (terms of use) that they ask you to sign up against.
8. Use of Your Content
a. Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with
respect to Your Content that [...]
Windows 2008 Heroes happen here launch
Yesterday saw me and two colleagues heading to Birmingham ICC centre to take part in some talks about Microsoft Windows 2008 Server. Manged to sit in on 3 talks in total about varying aspects of Windows 2008 such as new security features, new roles that could be accomplished and obviously new features. We didn’t manage [...]
Trip to Cisco’s Bedfont Lakes office :)
After watching the Google video for their new office in Zurich and thinking that looked like it had to be one of the best physical places to work – well until UKFast.net get bigger and our pool room quadruples in size , then I arrived at the Cisco office in Bedfont Lakes, London!!
They didn’t [...]
UKFast – Best Dedicated Hosting 2008
For those who don’t know, I’m the IT Director over at UKFast.net, for the past 3 years we have won an award at the ISPA Awards hosted down in London. This year seemed to be no exception and we won the title of Best Dedicated Hosting 2008, this was a bit of a shock as [...]
Nokia Sports Tracker
I’ve had NST (Nokia Sports Tracker) installed for a while now and I’ve used it a couple of times when I remembered, this was, unfortunately half way round a walk so I couldn’t track where I’d been
Needed another time to test it, a bike ride would work and luckily we had one planned [...]
The iPhone just got better
Well, it got announced that it just got better.
Still no sign of a new hardware version with 3 or 3.5G available which is still a bit of a problem/pain for some. However with the updates in software, most relevant to me is the MS Exchange ActiveSync for mobile push email and the Cisco VPN client.
Having [...]
IE8 Beta has been released
Out now
Don’t really use Windows much now apart form at work but could this be a good step in the right direction?
Think i’ll give it a go on my asus to try it out…….
