After nearly a year I’ve decided to leave Zaizi and move onto other things. I’ve had a really interesting time working there and heading up the Alfresco practice. There have been some fun projects and also some great technical challenges. I’m going to be moving away from Alfresco and focusing on some other technologies.
I’d like [...]
Leaving Zaizi
by Rob on 21. May, 2009 in Uncategorized
Cloud Computing Credit Crunch
by Rob on 05. Apr, 2009 in Uncategorized
At the recent London Cloud Camp I started thinking about the less obvious downsides to Cloud Computing and a move to a more centralised computing platform. The benefits to this approach are obvious: economies of scale, reduced capital outlay and lower barrier to entry.
What about the downsides? One of the arguments from IT departments is [...]
Cloud Computing and Amazon Mechanical Turk
by Rob on 13. Mar, 2009 in Uncategorized
I attended the third London Cloud Camp last night at the QE II conference centre. I had a really good time and met some interesting people. One of the conversation topics was around Cloud Computing definitions: you can probably imagine the discussions over what is just the internet and what is the “cloud”. Someone mentioned [...]
Hip Operation
by admin on 09. Mar, 2009 in Uncategorized
On Friday I had my operation. It went went well, although I was in surgery for two hours and caused a bit of a kerfuffle in the recovery room (more on that later). So what exactly was up with my hip? As suspected, confirmed and (hopefully) fixed by my surgeon I had Femoralacetabular Impingement or [...]
Tom’s Blog and other things
by admin on 25. Feb, 2009 in Uncategorized
Another of my friends has joined the world of blogging. Tom has decided to start posting about his current business ideas (checkout the photos of his new workshop, too cool for school). I’ve decided I’ll start doing this along with continuing to twitter about them.
A few other things I need to cover. I’m having an [...]