March 11th, 2010 → 10:15 pm @ Stuart
Anybody who host web sites and applications for clients knows how important it is to make sure that you have the ability to monitor the health and availability of your servers – even when you’re not at your desk.
In reality, there are many tools to do this, and quite a few are free. I’ve set [...]
March 7th, 2010 → 9:55 am @ Stuart
Optima has been selected to manage all technology resources for a new start-up, SmartInsights.com – a digital marketing portal.
SmartInsights was created by Dr. Dave Chaffey, a leading author, consultant and trainer specialising in E-commerce and E-marketing education and guidance.
Optima’s work involves the management of all IT resource, creation and management of a heavy customised WordPress [...]
October 30th, 2009 → 11:07 am @ Stuart
When I was setting up my latest virtual server (courtesy of the ever fantastic VPS.net cloud), I wanted to come up with a simple hourly backup policy for the mySQL databases that reside on the machine. Every hour, I wanted to dump the databases, tar/zip them up in a single archive and email it with [...]
July 28th, 2009 → 10:34 am @ Stuart
Since setting up as a self employed Internet Consultant to assist companies in the Leeds, UK area and beyond I needed to arrange myself a hosting environment, to host this site and any potential client sites that require hosting to go along with web design, web development, web marketing and the other services that I [...]
July 21st, 2009 → 9:30 am @ Stuart
Recently a story hit the news of a breach of security at Twitter – a hacker going by the name of ‘Hacker Croll’ managed to gain access to the google mail account of a Twitter employee and from there into a lot of other online accounts, gaining accessing to hundreds of confidential company documents.
Now that [...]
July 14th, 2009 → 5:38 pm @ Stuart
I’ve been using Wordpress a lot recently in various projects, and as I became increasingly familiar with it started to wonder whether or not it’s a candidate for being used as a full CMS for light weight sites.
As it turns out, many people have had the same thoughts – there’s a whole load of resources [...]
July 8th, 2009 → 9:04 am @ Stuart
Up until November last year I worked for a company called SkillsTrak. During my time there I designed, developed and managed an on-demand Skills Assessment platform called SkillsTrak.
The system is developed in PHP and runs on a mySQL database, and allows clients to create custom, tiered assessments to run on their staff. They can then [...]