Category Archives: Personal

DevOps

For the last 3 years I’ve been working in Systems Administration, specifically focusing on Cloud Infrastructure, and working directly with Development teams to try and make deploying websites as easy as possible. I sometimes find it hard to describe what … Continue reading

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Insomnia / Sponge

Since i49, I’ve now attended a number of Insomnia Gaming Festivals, returning as a staff member each time. I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of people from Multiplay, but also with the event volunteers. I should have … Continue reading

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Minecon #2

I guess I just don’t get around to posting on here very much. It has been a year since the last Minecon, and it has been an interesting year. I was invited to be a speaker at Insomnia Gaming Festival … Continue reading

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Minecon

The last blog post on here, was my first real post about Essentials. Essentials is a Minecraft server plugin, based on the Bukkit server mod. The purpose is to basically turn the basic vanilla server into a platform that can … Continue reading

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Essentials.

I briefly mentioned in a earlier post (Minecraft) the Essentials Bukkit server mod, for the game Minecraft. The server plugin adds a basic set of admin/staff tools to a server, and can add a lot of easy to use tools … Continue reading

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VCS.

For several years now, I’ve been using SVN to serve as a versioning system, and also for backup. There are several folders on my hard drive which contain script and code which I would be rather upset if I lost. … Continue reading

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