Last Tuesday I attended a talk/workshop organised by IrishDev.com about StormMQ and the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard that's cooking up. I was very impressed by how polished and well prepared the presentation was, very enjoyable. Showing "time slices" beside each topic from the beginning, giving a …

In December, I'm going to embark with a few other people on a "sew-along" adventure targeted at beginners. My sewing skills are limited to sort-of-putting back together fallen buttons and er that's about it, so this should be an interesting experience!

This is the first post from Gertie about this …

As anyone who's been within hearing range can tell you, I've acquired a new laptop recently that I've grown quite fond of. Here's my experience getting various Linux distributions working on it, your mileage may vary (e.g. my experience with Debian was widely different from others'). I ordered the …

Despite finding it a bit hard to start, I tremendously enjoyed Chris Beckett's Marcher novel -- I would recommend not reading the extract at the beginning of the book. The italicised prologue is a bit heavy too, but provides some context and once you get through it the story gets interesting …

If your hard drives are currently doing fine and you're ready to skip this article, please just do this for me: run *fdisk -l* as root, maybe *fdisk -u -l* as well and store the output in a file on a usb stick or another machine. Thanks. That's the kind …