End of an Era
Radio has been in my life a very long time now. It’s almost 20 years since I broadcast to the web with a friend, a cheap microphone and a chat channel egging us on....
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On-Call and Out of Hours Work – A Problem We’ll Never Likely Solve
If you’ve never been on-call, it’s an experience. And it’s not just limited to the technology world where your weekends are shackled to a phone and your plans have to be ready to change...
The Long Tail of IoT and How We Handle It
There’s the perennial joke that the “S” in IoT stands for “Security”. With cases like the recent spate of WD storage appliances being wiped on mass, which turned out to be an old, but...
First Steps into OpenDaylight with Brocade
It’s not often that catch-up meetings with vendors lead to anything particularly exciting but a recent one I attended with Brocade was a little different. While Brocade have had Openflow support for a very...
There’s Nothing New in IT
Ok, I’ll admit the headline might be a bit much. Especially as we’re now in a world where automation is king (really, stop hand cranking stuff!) and mobile devices are everywhere. However, when you’ve...
What’s the story on webRTC?
Ask some people, and they’ll claim webRTC isn’t making great inroads. In fact, a podcast I heard recently triggered me to actually write this article. After all, it’s a technology that’s helping change a...
TTL for Now
It’s always the little things that get you in technology. I’ve seen instances of stations taken off air by a simple fuse blowing. You also wouldn’t believe the level of embarrassment that can come...