A Brief History of IXP Manager
For another INEX project, I was asked to put together a timeline for IXP Manager – an open source application for managing Internet eXchange Points. Reproduced here: IXP Manager was originally a web...
View ArticleLinux (Ubuntu 16.04), PHP and MS SQL
In the many years I’ve been using the traditional LAMP stack, I’ve successfully managed to avoid having anything to do with MS SQL server. Until 2016. This year I’ve had to work quiet a bit with it –...
View ArticleDisk Usage on Windows under Windows\Installer – Useful Tools
Windows usage is mostly an occupational hazard for access to tools such as Microsoft Visio, VMware vSphere, proprietary VPN software, XenCenter, etc. We tend to use it on an as-needed basis via...
View ArticleOn Writing More – Daily January 2017
Over Christmas one of my brothers was toying with the idea of taking up a creative writing class when we got back to Dublin. He had even done a bit of research. My gut reaction was: if you want to...
View ArticleStar Trek: Voyager – The 2016 Rewatch
I watched the first episode of Star Trek: Voyager in my Junior Cert year in the function room of a pub with the local Star Trek fan club in early 1995. It was recorded in the US on a NTSC video tape,...
View ArticleDoing Us Wrong: The Independence Alliance
Shane Ross and John Halligan represent everything that’s wrong with the Irish multi-seat constituency system. Halligan got elected mostly on a local hospital issue. Numerous medical reviews clearly...
View ArticlePhpStorm and Xdebug – macOS / Homebrew
After many years of Sublime Text and, latterly, Atom, I’ve decided to give an integrated IDE another look – this time PhpStorm. I’ve always dropped them in the past as they tended to crash (hello Zend...
View ArticleEvaluating zsh
I’ve always been a bash user but I’ve recently decided to give zsh a while. It has some pretty useful features such as path expansion and replacement (see this slideshare). And yes, I’m well aware of...
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