Infrastructure as a Service : Just Compute and Go!
Context: Some Investment Bank, Some large project, Some time ago…
Me: Wait up Scott (Scott is our SysAdmin. Disclosure: We still are drinking buddies!)
Scott: What now Gibbon! Whatever you’re selling, I ain’t buying…
Me: Stop your whinging you miserable jobsworth. I need 10 Linux servers tomorrow for about 5 hours of performance testing.
Scott: LOL [...]
Ruby is the R in Rails
I would love to have attended RailsConf 2008 but alas you can only do so much in a day. Although this was a Rails conference, it seems that this year there was less talk about Rails and more about Ruby. This is hardly surprising really given that Rails is just a web framework. [...]
A note to the reader
Over the last couple of months I’ve been asking myself where my interests lie and that this should be reflected in my blog. But before I could do that I had to be honest with myself. So, I stood up one day, butt naked, well semi-clad and chanted:
“I no longer write production quality [...]
Adequate is not good enough!
A friend of mine, nicknamed “LeToe” for his rather poor footballing skills, is MD of a global telecommunications company. Big business. In a roundabout way, we came to learn that on one of his staff improvement courses, he was caught trying to motivate an employee by chanting “adequate is not good enough”! [...]
Cognifide goes Google
This week we made Google our standard office platform for all mail, documentation and collaboration. So we switched off zimbra (mail) that we hosted ourselves, we are making better use of calendaring now and are tentatively becoming more familiar with their online spreadsheet and document apps. Nothing special there.
As a user, [...]
Don’t throw out the Domain with the Design Methodology
Around 20 years ago Planet Software was being invaded. Attack of the killer Design Methodology. Every company just had to have one and there were plenty to go around. Objectory, OMT, Booch, Responsibility Driven Design, Catalysis, Fusion, Coad/Yourdon, Shaellor and Mellor, and the list goes on. All these Methodologies were [...]
Episerver 5: Growing in Stature
We have been doing a lot work around the .NET based EPiServer CMS. So much so that one of our Senior Devs, Adam Najmanowicz is one of the first people, on the planet, to become an EPiServer Most Valued Professional (EMVP). Not content with this, Adam successfully, and officially, gets EPiServer Certified together [...]
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