technology, Ruby rspec and exceptions A surprising way in which an exception doesn't always cause a test to fail. Or indeed have run at all...
technology Firefox add-ons, 15 years on After 15 years of using Firefox, and with the approaching release of the extension-breaking Firefox 57, I reflect on which extensions I use, which I can do without, and how things are moving on.
technology, AWS Not helpful, “aws s3 sync” The aws s3 sync "--metadata-directive" option: what does it do? Does it work? AWS themselves aren't clear on the matter...
technology, AWS The AWS S3 Inventory Service: don't end the destination prefix with “/” If you end the destination prefix with "/", then you'll end up with an unusable manifest.
technology SQL report fun This is just a little anecdote. Don't expect it to be deep or meaningful. I don't know, maybe there's something in here about feedback loops or focussing development effort in the right place, whatever.
technology, AWS Save money and be tidy with s3-upload-cleaner Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 is a popular, highly-scalable object storage service. It's used by a lot of big companies, including the one I work for. But it's very easy gradually to accumulate billable "invisible" storage.
technology Cisco and their IPv6 DNS cisco.com is now resolvable over IPv6. But something is still amiss..
Denmark, technology Diversity at QCon London 2015 Diversity in the technology sector remains a challenge, with much work to do. How did QCon London 2015 measure up?
technology openssl and the default cert file openssl s_client appeared to be claiming that a certificate was expired, when it wasn't.
technology, AWS Managing AWS CloudFormation templates using stack-fetcher At the AWSUKUG meetup in September I talked about Video Factory, and a tool we've created for managing stack templates.
technology, AWS Personal highlights from the AWS Enterprise Summit Yesterday I attended the AWS Enterprise Summit in London — I've chosen my highlights, and reflected on the summit as a whole.
technology, diversity Amazon Web Services fails at diversity The Amazon Web Services Enterprise Summit yesterday wasn’t exactly a shining beacon of diversity.
