Yet another What open source CMS's need.... (YAWOSCN)
As a professional systems architect and systems integrator, I often ponder the use of open source CMS systems in commercial and semi-commercial websites. Its tempting, good quality, flexible content...
View ArticleAmazon AWS - A practical experience - Part 1
Over the last few weeks I have been engaged in migrating a site I have been working on to the Amazon Web Services Environment. I have now got to the point where I feel I can start to write a series of...
View ArticleHave the City of London Police been infiltrated by Scientology?
Yesterday the guardian ran a story about an anti-scientology demonstrator being prosecuted by the City of London Police (Note: Not the metropolitan police). The demonstrators "crime" was to use the...
View ArticleStupid Stupid Sun Linux VM installer %$&*%-up
Suns rpm Linux installer includes a number of unversioned resources for common installable packages. So if you attempt to install something like "xml-commons-apis" with rpm or yum, the package manager...
View ArticleOld Dog, New Tricks
Web Frameworks seem to be the fad of the month at the moment, I have looked at a number of them from the venerable Ruby On Rails, Cocoon, Symfony, CakePHP, Code Ignitor, Grovy and Grails. However I...
View ArticleFreebsd on Amazon EC2?
I spotted a post on peat.org about an indicator that support for freebsd on amazon EC2 might be coming? This is apparently related to the new support for alternative OS's such as OpenSolaris , if...
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Barcamp London 4
Im at the first day of barcamplondon4, which is being held this week-end at GCAP's main offices in the west end of london. The "unconference" is running true to form, with delegates producing talks...
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Barcamp London 4 - Saturday afternoon
So I made it to the afternoon sessions, the first session that I attended was about MERB, which is an alternative Ruby based framework, lighter and faster than the Rails stack, which is claimed to...
View ArticleTalk on scalability, the cloud and virtual startups
I gave my talk at barcamp yesterday about scalability, startups and using the cloud to completely operate a new company, which seemed to go down well. Whilst running around networking, and having lots...
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Mashup 08
So here i am again at Alexandra Palace, at the BBC/Microsoft mashup 08 event, the 48 hour homage to all things techy and geeky. There is a certain sense of Deja Vue, having been here before at a...
View ArticleWorking on fav.or.it
Wow, all i can say is that I haven't had so much fun for years, despite the shock of having to do a two hour commute each way, working at fav.or.it is turning into one of the most interesting episodes...
View ArticleThe search for an agile, agile process
Agile is a great methodology, and applied right it can make your development process less like a black box, and more open to the stakeholders. It can do wonders for improving the reputation of your dev...
View ArticleSpooks Code 9
Last night I watched the first two episodes of the new Spooks: Code 9 spin off series, and to be honest if this is the standard of british drama that we are to receive in the future then I am very...
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Hacking the Aspire One
I recent acquired an Acer Aspire One, this little device is fantastic, but is severely limited by the default software it is delivered with. After spending an evening opening it up and dismantling it,...
View ArticlePlaxo pulse, blog integration is a bit dubious
I just noticed that plaxo now aggregates content from your blogs and displays it inside the plaxo system. At fav.or.it we operate in this space so we have some experience in what is considered good...
View ArticleUnbricking an aspire one
About 5 weeks ago i bought an Acer Aspire One, fantastic little machine, loaded it with Ubuntu (intrepid Ibix Alpha), 95% of the hardware works out of the box, even my 3UK 3G Modem, boy was I a happy...
View ArticleComparing Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibix) and Fedora 10 on the Aspire One
I have been trying out several linux distributions on my Aspire One to find one that suites the machine best, I have tried everything, including a copy of PCBSD that was well "less than successful".The...
View ArticleFixing External monitors on the Aspire One and Fedora 10
I was recently forced to spend some time using my Aspire One as a primary development machine, having left my macbook PSU at work, and being too lazy to go all the way back in to retrieve it. So I...
View ArticleEBS, Flash drives for EC2 machines
Recently i had a bizarre situation where i had been running a load of stuff through Hadoop on one of our EC2 clusters, and the job had failed, but it failed in such a way that if i could save away the...
View ArticleJava: Bad CPU id in executable
Here is a weird one: Recently i have been doing a lot of java work, and many of the packages I use need to have Java_HOME set. So normally i just add this line to my /etc/profile...
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