NASA SpaceApps 2015 – Visualising the International Space Station
This year's Space Apps Hackathon saw me (Kris Sum) teaming up with Jon Day (ex-SwitchSystems staff), Jamie Reynolds (BelieveIn Design) and Boris Tane (Engineering student).
A look at what our staff get up to…
The content you see on this site is from the lovely staff of Switch Systems Ltd, so i’m just letting you know that articles written here may not necessarily represent the views of the company as a whole! We hope you enjoy looking around…
Hands on with the BBC Micro-bit (MozFest15)
So it was my first time at MozFest this year and it certainly lived up to the hype. It’s one of the most random conferences i’ve attended – it definitely has a festival vibe about it – organised chaos and lots of distractions everywhere! Anyway I digress… the awesome Spencer Marsden from BBC A/V was...
NASA SpaceApps 2015 – Visualising the International Space Station
This year's Space Apps Hackathon saw me (Kris Sum) teaming up with Jon Day (ex-SwitchSystems staff), Jamie Reynolds (BelieveIn Design) and Boris Tane (Engineering student).
Building a voting system with a Raspberry Pi
Our pals over at @joypadbar had an idea for a new retro video gaming night – Video Game Democracy – a change to settle age old gaming arguments by voting on which games should get played next. Sonic vs Mario, Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat, Pacman vs Donkey Kong – the audience will decide! [GGSGamer...
Visualising some ‘open data’ from Devon County Council
In June, DCC released their first dataset on Github. It wasn’t perfect, merely a collection of excel files, but it was a starting point. I thought I would try to do something with the data (approx 147,000 spreadsheet rows) to demonstrate that with a little effort, their raw data files could be translated into something...
Code Club at Exeter Library
* image from TheExeterBlog Earlier on in the summer, Simon Belshaw of Exeter Library contacted me to ask if i would be able to help organise a CodeClub. Code Club is a a nationwide network of free volunteer-led after-school coding clubs for children. I’m a big advocate of promoting STEM subjects, so how could I...
Sundown 2014 – Postmortem
For 3 days in June, we helped to run Sundown (DemoScene Party) down in sunny Budleigh Salterton. We’ve been doing this for a number of years now in conjunection with Ruairi Fullum (@rc55), Dan Barber (@danbee) and other helpers (Waffle, Ziphoid to name but two). This year was absolutely spot on, the atmosphere was buzzing...
Gadget Time: My Pebble Smartwatch
Wearable technology has made some huge progress over the past 12 months, with fitness trackers like the Jawbone, FitBit, and SmartWatches like the Samsung Galaxy Gear. Kris manages to track down a Pebble from the USA and shares his experience with it
We won the hackathon at PHP UK Conference 2014!
Coffee, Coding and Conferences – a story of our winning hackathon entry at PHPUK14.
Reducing memory usage on SBS servers
Learn to tune the exchange information store (store.exe) and WSUS databases to reduce the memory footprint on SBS servers
We’re ISO 9001:2008 certified!
After months of hard work from the team, we're now ISO 9001:2008 certified (just in time for Christmas!)
Christmas Opening Hours
Our opening hours over christmas and new years : Closed 24th December, returning to work on the 2nd January (click for more info).
Quick’n’dirty exchange rule for marking .zip attachments as spam.
Setup a quick rule to mark .zip attachments as spam on your Exchange2010 server