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With the recent news that the NHS wants to close all its Github repos (see NHS Goes To War Against Open Source and An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open as well as a couple of other ‘war stories’ of what people had seen while working on…

A couple of days ago, I had a second interview for a job - after an initial conversation with a tech-lead of the company.

Based on my Reddit comment: One of the most impressive things about Symfony are the deprecation warnings - it will tell you what needs to be changed or upgraded ahead of time (the only time I’ve seen otherwise was a security fix).

Occasionally, I’ll write small largely stand-alone projects.

September 2019 On my second visit to An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail, Geoff Marshall (and Vicki!)

Just a quicky post, that I hope will save someone (or myself) some head-scratching later.

Although I’m busy day to day at my current contract *, that isn’t to say that my passions outside the office have come to a complete stop.

Developers!

I’ve been using TinyDNS, and the associated systems, like DNScache and DaemonTools since 2003, when I was first tasked with setting up a local DNS resolver, and a DNS server for a web-development company I was working at https://www.datasouth.co.uk/.

Here is an example of what a little expertise, judiciously applied can do to speed up larger systems.

Originally posted 2011-12-13 at phpscaling.com.

It has been in process for a little while, starting when I moved the bulk of my DNS hosting from https://www.bytemark.co.uk/ (with whom I’ve had a small virtual machine since April 2004).

Welcome.

I’ve done a few presentations, Two about Queueing systems, and particularly on BeanstalkD, which is a very excellent system for such job-queues.