Some of our more recent blog articles.
by Andrew Boag
To provide an even higher level of service and reliability for our clients the Australian, New Zealand and European branches of Catalyst got to work setting up a Follow The Sun (FTS) support model in 2015. The idea being to share responsibility for systems across time zones and teams. Here are some of our considerations and learnings.
by MaryRose Painter
Families in 2017 come in all shapes and sizes. They are diverse. As a parent myself, I am delighted to work for Catalyst, a company that encourages diversity by being flexible.
by MaryRose Painter
The Catalyst Arduino Academy went well as usual last week, with one important difference for 2017 - our attendees were all young women!
by Chris Cormack
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by Don Christie
20 years ago Jim Bolger was still our Prime Minister, the All Blacks made a clean sweep of the Bledisloe Cup and Wellington became the first city in the world to lay a fibre loop in the CBD. Four Wellingtonians were also looking around for work, their previous employer having recently sold up.
by Jen Zajac
So you want to run your own tech conference? Great! Here's everything you need to know.
by Donna Benjamin
Inkscape is free and open source drawing software. It’s available for Linux (of course), but also for Windows, and for MacOS too. It’s a tool for drawing 2D vector graphics, and its native file format is the World Wide Web Consortium’s standard for Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG.
Chris has just returned from travels in India. Chris keynoted the National Koha Conclave in Pune, and spoke at a learning event in Shillong for libraries in North-East India, on implementing Koha in the cloud, plus additional speaking engagements squeezed into his six day trip. It was a packed itinerary and Chris returned to us absolutely exhausted.
by Evan Giles
Without a realistic automated load testing strategy Catalyst would not be able to confidently roll out major changes to our Enterprise Moodle customers without risking a degredation in performance.
by Zoe Lu
I was lucky enough to attend the DevOpsDays Sydney 2016 Conference. This conference aims to help participants learn and shae ideas around adopting DevOps best practices. The conference was entirely organised by volunteers from the local technical community and had a very interesting format.