Category Archives: OSS

Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) and PHP 5.4

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

I was looking forward to trying out some of the new features in PHP 5.4 when I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 this morning. Unfortunately, Ubuntu decided to stick with 5.3 for this release. There is upgrade path available though via … Continue reading →

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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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Looking at New Features in PHP 5.4

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

PHP 5.4 was released at the start of March and heralds a key new feature which I have long bemoaned the lack of: traits. Traits (see PHP’s documentation and Wikipedia’s description) allow programmers to define a set of functions which … Continue reading →

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