HomeLab
I have a new MacÂBook Pro 13″ Retina (early 2015) that is pretty amazÂing, howÂever when I plugged it into my large exterÂnal disÂplay at the office fonts became really blurry and ugly, so bad that I could barely look at the display! After a
HomeLab
As we use ZimÂbra at work I decided to install ZimÂbra DeskÂtop for offline email, howÂever I ran into a bit of a snag because after downÂloadÂing it and folÂlowÂing the instalÂlaÂtion instrucÂtions I had the folÂlowÂing
HomeLab
I’ve been a hardÂcore Apple/Mac/OS X fanÂboy ever since the first Intel Macs came out and since I made the switch from WinÂdows I’ve never really look back. HowÂever I’ve always had this nigÂgling feelÂing in the back of
Docker
What if you could wrap up your appliÂcaÂtion in a lightÂweight conÂtainer and then move it to any Linux server and have it perÂform in a preÂdictable way with no changes? bare metal? virÂtuÂalÂized? in a multi tenÂant enviÂronÂ
Nokia
When I saw the news about Microsoft AcquirÂing Nokia Devices and SerÂvices this mornÂing my iniÂtial reacÂtion was one of conÂfuÂsion, why would one loser acquire another loser? It seems that othÂers had the same thought as well. HowÂever as I
OpenShift
I’ve just noticed that over on openshift.com they have an intriguÂing calÂcuÂlaÂtor that claims to CalÂcuÂlate the BusiÂness BenÂeÂfits of PaaS and to genÂerÂate a dolÂlar value for movÂing to PaaS, quotÂing directly from
PaaS
Update 1:  I’ve recently moved to a static website based on Hugo and hosted on Netlify Update 2: I recently migrated this site to world.hey.com Update 3: I recently left HEY and migrated this site to ghost.org As I’m a bit of a geek at
HomeLab
So today I open up my RSS reader (I migrated to NewsÂblur after Google killed Reader) and I’m browsÂing my usual feeds — includÂing DilÂbert when I see this: Grrr! Even after checkÂing the webÂsite and going to the offiÂcial feed it’s
OpenShift
I just subÂmitÂted an abstract for a talk at JBoss World 2012, hope it gets accepted! Real World SoftÂware DevelÂopÂment with Openshift OpenÂShift is Red Hat’s free, auto-scaling platform-as-a-service for Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl and Python applications. In this
Red Hat
I had the slightly dubiÂous privÂiÂlege this week of standÂing in at the last-minute as a speaker at a MilÂiÂtary conÂferÂence on secuÂrity in Prague. On TuesÂday at 4:30pm I found out that we needed someÂone to
HomeLab
I use LinÂode to host a VPS and they have a great feaÂture called StackScriptswhich allows you to: StackScripts proÂvide a flexÂiÂble way to cusÂtomize our disÂtriÂbÂuÂtion temÂplates. They’re very easy to use — find a StackScript, answer its
HomeLab
I have recently switched my LinÂode VPS from CenÂtOS 5.6 to SciÂenÂtific Linux 5.6 because I got a bit sick of all of the delays that the CenÂtOS team have been expeÂriÂencÂing, to be honÂest I don’t care