Richard Downer

The treasure trove of obscure information is moving off the open Internet

Minecraft can be a fun game for young children, but not when there’s monsters in the dark.

MS-DOS memory management always was confusing for teenage me.

Subtitled, “Learn from my failures!”

I recently had reason to collect metrics on a Linux server that was to be posted to an analysis service.

Thanks to OpenWRT, I have a fully-functional IPv6 home network

Here I restore my childhood computer back into its original glory.

Yes, it’s time for one of those “here’s how I configure my workstation!”

Once again I had the chance to join ApacheCon Europe, this time to the new “Core” conference.

I’m very pleased to be able to present my first major conference talk, talking about the Apache Brooklyn incubator project, at ApacheCon Europe 2014 in November.

Operation “turn an old Amiga 600 into a Raspberry Pi”

Amazon EC2’s images for Windows servers can be made accessible with passwordless SSH login, just like Linux, without requiring custom images.

Could you build a cloud using Raspberry Pis?

“Know your tools” is one of the key rules serious software developers live by, because it can make you highly productive.

Windows instances on Amazon EC2 are given a random password.

My earlier script to enable WinRM in one step has been cleaned up and is now on GitHub.

XebiaLab’s OverThere project recently appeared on GitHub.

How do you run Cloud Foundry if you don’t have a spare cloud lying around?

I don’t usually write articles that are just linking to another article, but this is so good it was worth an exception.

SaaS, PaaS and IaaS?

Last year I changed jobs.

ASP.NET Web Forms is dead, only it isn’t really, because ASP.NET MVC is just different, and not a replacement.

A few years ago, we (at the company I work for) decided to move away from Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) to Subversion.

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is the tool used by a great many small Microsoft software development shops.

After promising two-weekly updates, it’s now been over a month since my first, real, post.

This book isn’t about project management, requirements or scheduling - it’s about getting your code working reliably, your coders working together, and your software completed."

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