JotSpot is finally back in the form of Google Sites. Back in the day, we were pretty excited about JotSpot but the result of the Google integration has left it looking like a glorified web page builder that’s trying to be like Share Point. The site themes looks like early 90’s web design, which doesn’t [...]
Category Archives: Software
Windows Home Server
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
At home one of my desktop PC’s developed a bit of a cough. I say cough but I mean a voilent hard disk grating noise. While I could have fixed the problem with two shiny new hard drives, I thought it would be much more fun to set up a home server and backup the [...]
Using Gmail IMAP to Import Mail
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Since my last poke about with Thunderbird I’ve been using Outlook Web Access and Gmail from home and trusty old Outlook 2007 at work.
But wait! It now looks like I can have my cake and eat it! IMAP support (as announced back in October) has been enabled on my Gmail account. Hurray!
I dusted off Thunderbird [...]
Domain specific langauges
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Domain specific languages often serve the purpose they were designed for better than a general scripting language.
At work we use a tool call ‘m’ every day. In fact it’s a vital part of our infrastructure. Generally one of the first milestones of a new platform is getting ‘m’ generating files for the tool chain. The [...]
Windows PowerShell
Sunday, July 8, 2007
I’ve been following the Windows PowerShell and the PowerShell team blog on and off for some time. It was released not too long after Vista but I never really go round to checking it out properly until this afternoon. I have been looking for some inspiration on how we can bring together some of our [...]