Monthly Archives: April 2016


Here comes the Cloud! But is your architecture ready for it? – an evening with Bash!

Last night I had the pleasure of watching a subject matter expert explain the complexities of datacentre architecture for application delivery. At an event in Brewbot Belfast Axel Fontaine (http://axelfontaine.com/)  covered the various aspects of moving to Cloud in entirety. The calibre of the presenter was obvious as his day job is teaching the approach to […]


Don’t be so Negative!

Nothing like a challenge to get your thought processes going. How about some 60 or 70 year old black and white film negatives in unusual (5.5 cm x 5.5 cm) sizes that you want to see the positive image of ? In the past I have had scanners with a transparency capability but mainly that […]


Gimp and EPS format files

I had a need to work on an EPS format file for a client web site so I reached for the tool I had last used for this – namely the GIMP – short for the Gnu Image Manipulation program. If not familiar think free Photoshop alternative. I was surprised  though to find an error […]


ICON UK 2016

It may seem far away now but this years ICON event has been announced for 15th and 16th of September 2016. More details will be available through the official site here but I have no doubt that we will be treated again to thought provoking and useful sessions. I personally am hoping to see a large […]


Spoilt for choice

Having had some particular issues for clients recently on browsers specifically – I was pleasantly surprised  to see two new browsers putting in an appearance. The more recent is Vivaldi  from Opera’s founder and its been in the pipeline for about a year with the release today – so far I have found it fast and […]