Excuses for a blogging hiatus: WOT Summary
So much for frequent updates on here. I’ve been pretty flat-out with work, which is a good excuse and on top of that I’ve been working on a fun little side project. For those who haven’t read it, the...
View ArticleDjango Errors with Dreamhost
I was just setting up a Django environment on Dreamhost – and couldn’t work out what was going on. Every time I tried to reach the admin page – I got an Internal Server Error 500 message. Not very...
View ArticlePhotos of 2010: Elwood Sunset
So I had my shiny new camera. Time to head down to Elwood beach and catch the sun going down.
View ArticlePhotos of 2010: Cow by the River
We were camping in Apollo Bay before embarking on the Great Ocean Walk. When we woke up in the morning we were amazed to see a herd of cows grazing 10 metres from out tent – across a small stream.
View ArticlePhotos of 2010: Sunset in Glenelg
With no hotels available in the city itself – I spent a weeks work in Adelaide staying in Glenelg. Glenelg is great – it makes me think of a family friendly St Kilda. And the views at sunset are...
View ArticlePhotos of 2010: Cape Otway Koala
This was Snuggles the Koala. He was sitting above one of the campsites on the Great Ocean Walk. (The Cape Otway one). So cute and close we could reach out and touch him.
View ArticlePhotos of 2010: Mount Mitchell at Sunrise
Easter Sunday I got up before Sunrise to take some amazing photos from the top of Mt Mitchell (The highest peak in the Grampians). A walk up the hill in the dark was fun – and I was rewarded with some...
View ArticleAutocompleting Australia
So inspired by Very Small Array comes the Autocompletion Map of Australia. (thanks FlowingData) First up — the first result for VIC/NSW/WA/SA/QLD/TAS/ACT/NT. We’re not looking at the first result — we...
View ArticleRafting Fun
I had an amazing time in New Zealand. Almost as amazing as this series of Rafting shots. The Kaituna River was a lot of fun.
View ArticleBlog re-design 2011
All of my regular readers (Hi Mum!) might have noticed that the blog looks all new. I wanted to find a minimilistic theme that would encourage me to write more. And so I built it myself. I have to...
View ArticleJunction always marked as “not available”
Ran into an interesting challenge this week. Created an SSL Junction to a server. Had the usual warning about untrusted SSL appear – so I added the public key into the pdsrv keystore and that message...
View ArticleLearning ISAM
This is intended to be a living resource of ISAM resources. It will be update more in the future. 9.0.1.0 ISAM documentation There’s also a few PDF’s that are fantastic (although the cookbooks in...
View ArticleUsername Mapping for Client Certificates
I recently had a chance to migrate a basic Client Certificate environment from TAM 6.1.1 to ISAM 9.0.1.0. If you haven’t looked at Client Certificate mapping – my colleague Phil Nye has a great...
View ArticleJunction Troubleshooting
A couple of year ago – I wrote a post about handling SSL Junctions being marked as unavailable. The fix I did then was to disable Client Cert Auth on the back-end. Since then – I’ve come across a...
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