Sundown 2013 report
Kris and Hannah setup infrastructure for Sundown 2013
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…
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.
An example on deriving meaning from big(ish) data
Kris demonstrates how important visualisation is when working with large datasets
Kris’ favourite android apps and games
Kris shows us his current favourite apps and games for android
Changing Chicken Coops
Jay updates his chicken coop.
Lubuntu to the Rescue
Making the most out of older (slower) hardware...