For the past few weeks my software developing has been taking a back seat as I planned and coordinated the IT requirements of an office move. The company I work for has been working out of a converted barn, but as the company has grown we have outgrown the building and for quite a while it has been a real squeeze to...

Next month I will celebrate ten years working at my current job, two weeks after that I will start a new chapter of my life at a new company. Lets take this opportunity to look back ten years at some of the great stuff I have achieved. 2006 In 2006 I had no IT experience. If you were to ask me where Event Logs could be...

I listen to the dot net rocks podcast and they ask this question every show. (If you don’t listen then you should!) I don’t know what my answer would be as there are so many gadgets and cool things that I like the sound of. I might get a surface pro 3, it’s a tablet with attachable keyboard that’s more powerful than my...

You may not have heard of Nagios but it has saved my bacon quite a few times. Nagios is an open source server monitoring application that runs on many linux flavours. I can’t remember exactly when I first installed nagios but I am guessing it was sometime in 2007/8. My boss gave me a book about it (which I never read)...