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Pursuing a life of serenity

It is important, especially in the fast paced world we live in, to remember to take care of number one - yourself. In order to perform at our best, we need to rejuvenate, regroup and allow our bodies and our minds to rest from time to time.

20 Years Ago

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.

Catalyst Open Source Academy 2017

The Open Source Academy is two weeks of intense learning and mentored project work. Participants work towards making a change in a real open source project.

JMeter as a Load Testing Tool

Catalyst manages many Enterprise web applications, enough that we always seem to be upgrading one instance or another.

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A better onboarding tool for Koha

In November 2016 Mika Smith and I started as Koha interns at Catalyst. We were given an exciting opportunity to help library administrators all around the world by redesigning the installation process of the Koha library management system.

Moodle

New Catalyst Moodle plugin – Outage Manager

As a Moodle Partner, we manage hosting and support for our enterprise Moodle clients. Some of these clients receive millions of page views every day, so we need to minimise disruption when we make upgrades or install security patches.

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The great cloud debate - Aug 2016

Last night I was fortunate enough to attend the Docker Meetup Groups event. Docker in this case being the forum for a cloud-centric discussion -- The Big Debate: AWS v Azure vs Google Cloud vs EMC Hybrid Cloud