We won the hackathon at PHP UK Conference 2014!
Coffee, Coding and Conferences – a story of our winning hackathon entry at PHPUK14.
A look at what our staff get up to…
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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
How to upgrade Business Contact Manager 2010 to 2013 when the database tool doesn’t work
How to upgrade BCM2010 databases to 2013 manually
The Great Gorillas are here!
Look what turned up outside our office in southernhay! Find out more about the Great Gorillas project at www.greatgorillas.org.uk/gorillas
Vagrant – making development life easier!
Vagrant has been on my radar for a while now (thanks to @jr261) and has been high on my list of things that I must try out. Well, thanks to Jeremy Quinton‘s excellent talk at this years PHP Conference I finally got around to giving it a spin. Overview Vagrant (through the power of virtualisation) ...
How to brick your Nexus 7
I have been playing around with Ubuntu on my Nexus 7 for a while, and decided yesterday to go back to stock android 4.2.2, so I downloaded the images from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and extracted the zip file to my PC. Restoring android 4.2.2 included in the package is a flash-all.bat file which contains all the commands...
A Little Rant at PHP Conference Videos
Reviewing the videos from London’s PHP Conference 2012 was, at times, a frustrating experience – interesting talks with little frame of reference as speakers gesticulated towards projector screens just out of shot and videos cut to unrelated slides or those from some point some time past in the presentation. Now it’s 2013. “It’ll be better”,...
Kris at the SpaceApps Hackathon
SpaceApps is a global hackathon run by NASA which took place over the weekend of the 20/21st April 2013. Kris spent the weekend at the Met Office HQ in Exeter, one of 5 UK locations this year.