It’s been interesting to see the mountain that is the #FuelCrisis build out of a mole-hill. What was just a vote to position themselves for a strike, should the fuel delivery drivers not accept the negotiations on their pay & conditions, has lead to shortages of petrol and diesel across the country when there was no reason for it.

Although still heavily using Subversion for much of our source repository handling, some of our development team at the company I work for have requested to use Git instead using our internal repositories. Unfortunately, it’s integration within CruiseControl is a little bit more difficult and not as simple as it is with SVN.

Was presented with a challenge today to see if someone can create a way to get a remote user to download an image from a third-party server when you don’t have access to the files. Although a little bit of a cop-out, I came up with the idea of proxying through Apache and trying to [...]

Please take the time to watch this video and spread the word. Seriously. Please. I came across it last night and he made me cry. For just a few short minutes, he opens up his heart and gives us a glimpse of his short life; his pain and his suffering. He’s an inspiration, but he also just [...]