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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...
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...
* 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...
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...
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
Coffee, Coding and Conferences – a story of our winning hackathon entry at PHPUK14.
Learn to tune the exchange information store (store.exe) and WSUS databases to reduce the memory footprint on SBS servers
After months of hard work from the team, we're now ISO 9001:2008 certified (just in time for Christmas!)
Our opening hours over christmas and new years : Closed 24th December, returning to work on the 2nd January (click for more info).
Setup a quick rule to mark .zip attachments as spam on your Exchange2010 server
How to upgrade BCM2010 databases to 2013 manually
Kris and Hannah setup infrastructure for Sundown 2013
