Category Archives: Rants

Recruitment Agency => FAIL

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

While I certainly understand and appreciate the need for recruitment agencies and have dealt with many good ones over the years, I cannot stand the seemingly hundreds of dodgy ones. These are the ones that ring plague me every other day and … Continue reading →

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FÁS Jobs Ireland => FAIL

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

One would think that will all the fuck ups in FÁS over the past few years coupled with the current unemployment numbers that they could at least get their jobs portal right? Alas, no. I remember using it two years … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Service’s ec2-bundle-image on Ubuntu

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

This is really a post for Google’s crawlers on getting AWS’s EC2 AMI tools working under Ubuntu (I’m currently on Gutsy 7.10). Despite any bitching I may do below, EC2 and S3 are cool services. The first problem is that … Continue reading →

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If architects had to work like programmers…

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

A friend sent me this link today. It’s too true to be funny: http://www.pcuf.fi/~pjt/pink/software-architecture.html

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I’m voting Green. Here’s why…

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

We’re just coming to the end of three weeks of a fascinating political election campaign here in Ireland. Fascinating that is if you’re a political anorak. The big election is on Thursday and the two main blocks seem to be … Continue reading →

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