Author Archives: Barry O'Donovan

New Replication Features in MySQL 5.6

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

I’ve just been reading an article on replication in MySQL 5.6 and there are quite a few new cool features that will vastly improve replication environments with MySQL. Some of these include: Optimised row based replication (documentation here) – replication … Continue reading →

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ViMbAdmin 2.1 Released – POP3/IMAP Access Restrictions

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

We’ve just pushed a new release of ViMbAdmin – version 2.1. The main highlights are: it’s now possible to restrict access to a mailbox via either IMAP, POP3 or both. See this page on the wiki for more information. it’s … Continue reading →

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“Learnings from open-sourcing Bootstrap”

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

Mark Otto, the man behind Twitter’s Bootstrap posted a good article summarising his experience on the open source process. His own tl;dr version is: Open-source is awesome, sometimes work is hard, be excellent to each other, do what you love, fuck … Continue reading →

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HTC Back in my Good Books!

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

Last week, I posted HTC – quietly brilliant? Maybe not…. Then on Saturday I got my over the air upgrade to Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). So yes, HTC are definitely back in my good books PS: I had to send … Continue reading →

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HTC – quietly brilliant? Maybe not…

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

I don’t use HTC Sense services but it’s something that comes with the phone and many people may. I received the following this morning: HTCSense.com is undergoing a renovation to improve the services and value we deliver to customers like … Continue reading →

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