Category Archives: Software

Some New Nagios Plugins

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

Over the past ten years I have left many many new and hacked Nagios plugins on many servers around the globe. I’m now making a concerted effort to find them, clean them, maintain them centrally and release them. To that … Continue reading →

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So I’ve Made the Switch from SVN to Git…

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

…and I’m bloody delighted.  The straw finally came when Nick forced my hand for a project we wanted to release through our work in INEX. I was pushing for Google Code but he had his heart set on GitHub. Now, … Continue reading →

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Introducing ViMbAdmin – Virtual Mailbox Administration

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

About two weeks ago, my company released an internal software project, ViMbAdmin, as open source under a GPL3 license. So far the reception has been great for a project we just put out there. We have over ten third party … Continue reading →

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Using Doctrine ORM with Zend Application

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

We’ve just published the first in a serious of hidden treasures articles from our ViMbAdmin application over on the company blog: In this first of a serious of articles where we delve into some of the hidden treasures in our ViMbAdmin … Continue reading →

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Database Design for Doctrine

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

Creating a database schema directly in the database or in YAML can be very frustrating and difficult. I’ve looked at tools like MySQL Workbench in the paste and have not been impressed – especially as I need an export to … Continue reading →

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