Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
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I have just spent the weekend helping a friend to build servers and setting up a hosting facility. It was a weekend of cables, kernels and RAID driver patches!
A few months ago we sat down and started a planning session to evaluate the needs of ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
After several months of planning we have finally held our first large usergroup event last night at the Beehive in Newcastle University.
At short notice we collected 20 people from the following various usergroups:
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Ruby
LUG (Linux User Group)
ACCU
Refresh Newcastle
The ultimte goal is to build the profile of open source ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Google Developer Day, Google App Engine Presentation
On tuesday I travelled to London to the Google Developer Day. As expected, the event was very well organised.
Mano Marks gave an excellent set of presentation on Google App Engine. You can view them on YouTube.
I went along to see what I can learn ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Next month I will be speaking at a webinar alongside Dave Berry and Alan WIlliamson. The webinar is entitled "Powering Your Business with Cloud Computing" and takes place on Tuesday October 14th 2008, 1.30pm.
More Details Here
You can signup for the event here.
Dave Barry has written a blog post about this here.
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