Archive for September, 2011

Hardware hacking

25Sep11

I missed the start of PubSub Huddle on Friday due to the catastrophic failure of the local railway system. Luckily I can now catch up using the podcasts. Once I got there I spotted Andy Piper tinkering with the Arduino kit he had been using to demo some stuff with MQTT. I was inspired. I […]


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NoSQL as a governance arbitrage

24Sep11

I got into a conversation earlier in the week with a techie friend about the merits of SSDs, which we both use these days for our main machines. It look a odd left turn when he said: Funny part for me is that I truly believe the SSD revolution will result in a swing back […]


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AMQP – the enchanted corner of SOA

18Sep11

I first drew this chart back around 2004 for my friend Alexis Richardson. At the time I referred to it in the context of a proprietary research methodology, but I don’t want trademark lawyers chasing me – hence the thesaurised title for this post. The point was very simple – we had standards based protocols […]


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Review – EVGA G210 Graphics Card

07Sep11

After getting my 27″ monitor I needed a graphics card with Dual Link DVI that could do 2560×1440. I didn’t want to spend a load, and I wanted something without a fan (and associated noise) – the EVGA G210 was the cheapest I could find – £23.05 from Scan.co.uk (with free delivery courtesy of the […]


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