Hyperic joins SpringSource

May 6, 2009

Congrats to Hyperic for the purchase by SpringSource. If you’d bet me which of the new wave were going to be bought first I would have bet on Hyperic every time. What is most gratifying about the purchase is that it is an open source company doing the buying. Whilst I think it unlikely, one [...]

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TimeTag hits beta

April 24, 2009

After what feels like an eternity, TimeTag has finally hit its first beta release. It has taken two years! Far too long I know. Had I known precisely how much code it was going to take I probably wouldn’t have started in the first place. Still, its all done now and I’m quite proud of [...]

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The joy of content plagiarism

April 22, 2009

One of the nice side effects of our new content management system is that you can leave comments on our articles. We received one rather intriguing comment this week effectively accusing us of plagiarising an article. That came as a bit of a surprise given that I know Denis wrote the article in question several [...]

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Blekko cluster live visualisation station

April 15, 2009

Rich Skrenta has done a post about the Blekko cluster health visualisation console. Very neat!

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The cloud application shortcut key conundrum

April 1, 2009

One of the more annoying things about using the new, all singing, all dancing web interface on Apple’s MobileMe email service is the hijacking of my much used Firefox shortcut ^N (create a new browser window.) When using a browser, I expect ^N to create me a new browser window, which it duly does most [...]

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Servers you can cook with

March 23, 2009

Everybody knows that one of the biggest consumers of electricity in data centre is the air conditioning system. There are two main avenues for reducing the cost of air conditioning, either make the air conditioning system more efficient so that it consumes less electricity, or remove the requirement to use so much air conditioning in [...]

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Choosing a content management system redux

March 13, 2009

I blogged about choosing a content management system and we’ve finally managed to deploy the resulting system. It would be fair to say that choosing a content management system is a nightmare. And, anybody elses experience probably won’t help you very much unless you share the same set of requirements. Our requirement was largely shaped [...]

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PowerTime is now TimeTag

March 3, 2009

The blog hiatus continues… I’ve started a new blog to cover the TimeTag project that is keeping me away from here. Had a project rename because none of the powertime domains were available. The timetag.net domain was available. I think I like the powertime name better, but I don’t want the hassle or cost of [...]

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Blog hiatus

February 2, 2009

My posting activity has been a little light of late… and there is a very good reason for that, I’ve been busy writing some software. Writing software is kinda like the powerful spell in Rincewind’s mind in Terry Pratchett’s book The Colour of Magic, it will prevent everything else from occupying your brain. Anyway, the [...]

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OpenNMS conference in Europe

January 13, 2009

… now all of you OpenNMS fans and people who’d like to know more about how OpenNMS can help you manage your network for less, have the opportunity to meet lots of influential OpenNMS people, without the need to hop onto a plane to the good ol’ U.S. of A. The first ever OpenNMS user [...]

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