I am a big fan of the MODX content management system. I used to use Etomite until I saw it’s MODX fork. I liked what I saw and I never looked back. I have produced some really great sites with MODX and I would thoroughly recommend it for any small to medium web site. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
It is often said that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance
Τείχη Χωρίς περίσκεψιν, χωρίς λύπην, χωρίς αιδώ μεγάλα κ’ υψηλά τριγύρω μου έκτισαν τείχη. Και κάθομαι και απελπίζομαι τώρα εδώ. Αλλο δεν σκέπτομαι: τον νουν μου τρώγει αυτή η τύχη· διότι πράγματα πολλά έξω να κάμω είχον. Α όταν έκτιζαν τα τείχη πώς να μην προσέξω. Αλλά δεν άκουσα ποτέ κρότον κτιστών ή ήχον. Ανεπαισθήτως [...]
On demand web training
Mood: Sleepy (it’s late!) Sound: Soundgarden Travel destination: Turkey Over the years I have been involved in a lot of professional development, training and presentations, on both sides of the lectern. I have also presented professional training courses for CAVAL at LaTrobe University over a long period that saw me travel to Singapore, New Zealand and most [...]
Enterprise Architecture methodologies
I am an Enterprise Architect, more by accident rather than by design. I have worked on some really large projects such as The Big Day Out, Lonely Planet, Flight Centre, ANZ, Bigpond and many others. I have also solution architected and implemented some of the largest web sites that have been produced in Australia. Like [...]
OpenID authentication protocol
Mood: Contemplative Sound: The Fumes Travel destination: Japan I have been playing with OpenID a lot lately. I have also been lucky enough to have a talented Ruby coder working with me to get the provider side of things worked out. At this stage we have gone with RESTful implementation and a MySQL datastore. OpenID is [...]
Dell mouse problems of drifting over & off screen
Mood: Jubilant Sound: The Black Water Fever Travel destination: Japan (if I am allowed) The trappings of my new job, brought a new Dell Latitude D630 and a Dell optical scroll mouse. The Latitude has been banging away quite nicely but the mouse is another story. My mouse is possessed. It scrolls randomly drifting to the [...]
New technologies, new toys!
I thought I would capture some of the new technologies I am playing with at the moment. I will come back and document my experience with them… http://www.rightscale.com http://www.thegridlayer.com http://www.highscalability.com http://aws.amazon.com http://www.djangoproject.com http://www.rubyonrails.org