On Software development I read the other day that the honorary British citizen, Will.i.am, who performed at the Jubilee, carried an Olympic torch and tweeted through a prime time TV show has committed to become a software developer. I don’t know what Will.i.am is profession wise, but he is certainly entrepreneurial in spirit and in … Continued
I recently read an article titled “GitHub needs to take open source seriously” from InfoWorld, and it was all kicked off by this tweet: younger devs today are about POSS – Post open source software. f*** the license and governance, just commit to github. – slightly edited 😉 Whilst I don’t consider myself one of the … Continued
We had a kind of niche case client requirement recently. The client has two (very) separate web applications deployed on their network. One a regular web app, the other a GWT based IM client. The interesting requirement was having the two applications integrate with each other on the client, essentially launch the GWT based app … Continued
Our beloved tester Matt posted the following to the company chat system this morning: Are people really silly enough to plug their laptops into an unknown USB drive embedded in a wall by goodness knows who? See http://deaddrops.com/ (A particular tickler for Alec I’d imagine) Matt is exactly right – if I caught someone doing this … Continued
It was mid-morning, and rather in need of a cup of tea I decided to let my colleagues know that I would be AFK by hurriedly typing the following into the team chat window: Alec: mug = new Tea(); This was meant to be a joke, and yes I paused over the syntax for a … Continued
Last week I had the immense pleasure of attending both Realtime Conference 2012 and the XMPP Summit in Portland, OR. Realtime Conference 2012 Realtime conference (formally ‘Keeping it realtime‘) is organised by the guys from &yet and, as the name suggests, sets out to be a conference about realtime technologies on the web. Conferences are … Continued
Surevine is currently pursuing ISO27001 certification; a few years ago I would have been faintly dismissive of that, my understanding coloured by successive readings of BS7799, BS17799 and the Site Security Handbook, in each of them (except perhaps the latter) finding little to benefit how I / my organisations work. Now… I would not say … Continued
Four years ago, the success of Internet based social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn inspired us to start helping organisations socialise their workforce using Internet-proven paradigms such as blogging, micro-blogging, wikis etc. We’ve seen and helped organisations adopt a wide variety of tools, covering the entire social networking spectrum, from micro-blogging … Continued
Part of of my job at Surevine is to improve security; superficially that should go without saying, but what it actually turns into is re-engineering operations and architecture – this means adoption of OpenVPN, of Amazon VPC, and any other new technologies which allow us to maintain appropriate control over our assets whilst making the developers … Continued
Introduction Alfresco (the open-source enterprise content management system) provides support for recording system activity out of the box. The majority of user actions are captured by the activity system, and corresponding activity entries are stored within the database. These entries are then compiled into feeds in a variety of formats which are accessible via the … Continued