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Compiling – xkcd.com

The same is also true for testers: “My tests are running”…

Stop the world spinning…

I have been so busy recently that I have not had time to post (again!). A few weeks ago I changed departments at work again, and am back in development though now the functional test department has merged with development, so I have been testing for the last few weeks. This means I am up . . . → Read More: Stop the world spinning…

Red Hat education

I spent all of last week on the Red Hat Rapid Training and Certification course trying to learn more about linux.

I certainly learnt a hell of a lot, and the 4 day course was a lot of work and very tiring. The exam however made all that seem relaxing. I have never sat a . . . → Read More: Red Hat education

IS02 v2 released (inc. stats and accounting viewer)

The extra project I had been working on before christmas has finally been approved and is released! The IS02 Broker Explorer support pack (v2) contains a whole pile of new features, including:

Control of remote brokers/config managers Association of a broker with a config manager (local or remote) Deploying a bar file (broker archive) to . . . → Read More: IS02 v2 released (inc. stats and accounting viewer)

Back to work

So my week off was really nice. I watched films, read books, took a quick day trip to the new forest with a friend down from London.

I won’t mention too much about the films and books other than to say Dune is an incredible book, I will be buying the whole set of them . . . → Read More: Back to work

Life in level 3 service

So I have had a few days to start settling in to Message Broker Level 3 Service. So far I have only managed two PMR’s (Problem Maintenance Request – what the customer opens when they have a problem with our product). They have both been customer errors. This is not to say that the error . . . → Read More: Life in level 3 service