{All the way from Cambridge}

My current employer CARET, part of the University of Cambridge,  are looking for two intrepid folks to come and join us as developers here in Cambridge. There are currently two positions, one as developer here, and one as a more senior developer/architect here. I have been at CARET for just short of 6 months, and [...]

I completed day 1, at Caret yesterday. All in all things went really well. It’s just so painful having to start over from scratch, learning new systems, what’s where, who’s who, what not to do etc. Especially coming from a company where I had grown to know all of the clients, their environments, quirks etc. [...]

I have been battling to get this working, properly when deployed on a Windows 2003 SP2 or above server. Earlier this afternoon I found this article buried in the Adobe forum, guess what, it works!  Much to my amazement.   One for the ‘note-to-self’ category   Download the latest Flash uninstaller on this page, and place [...]

Earlier today I was on the end of yet another presentation. Only this time I walked out wanting to buy the service(s) on offer.  Webroot are a provider of hosted email, and web filtering tools.  My employer currently uses an alternate solution, but sufficed to say after today’s meeting we may be looking elsewhere. The [...]

I am currently look out to sea from the side of the pool here in Cyprus.  The north Africa coast line cannot be seen, though I am told it is only a little beyond the horizon.  I am waiting for my client to pick me up, so we can go and finish off the work. [...]

I’m off to to Cyprus late next week (for work, alas).  Not to keen on the place really, Limmasol reminds me (in the touristy parts at least) of Blackpool.  If you’d spent 18+ years in Blackpool you’d probably rather not be reminded of it either. I will be flying with BA, passing through T5 at [...]