Mar 2 2011

Back in November last year, Oracle announced it had agreed to acquire Art Technology Group (ATG) where I was employed. As of yesterday, the acquisition is complete and I am now an employee of Oracle corporation.

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Feb 23 2011

I’ve recently put together a small computer to act as a simple SOHO NAS. I’ve received a few questions about it, so I thought I should put up a quick blog about what I’d done.

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Dec 20 2010

puTTY, a free telnet and SSH terminal client, is one of the software tools I use almost every day. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to use it to log in to SSH servers using public key authentication, so you can avoid having to enter a username and password every time.

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Nov 8 2010

Google recently launched mod_pagespeed, an add-on module for the Apache web server that automatically applies many web page loading speed optimisations. I’ve had a chance to trial mod_pagespeed on a Debian server, and this is what I found. It’s no magic bullet and I have run in to a few niggles.

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Nov 2 2010

Oracle announced today that it is to acquire the Art Technology Group (ATG), the company I am employed by. Assuming the stockholder and regulatory approval process goes as expected, I should be working for Oracle by early 2011. All change, interesting times.

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