Category Archive: Technology

If you couldn’t guess, these are technology related posts.

Jan 24 2012

Just git on with it…

Ok, coding nerd moment here.  I have been becoming more and more involved in my spare time with the Dojo Toolkit.  For me it keeps my mind in an enjoyable “problem solving” mode, which I enjoy, versus necessarily all the fun of being a senior IT manager affords itself, where I wouldn’t get near the sharp end …

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Dec 18 2011

Two Idiots Abroad

My boss and I recently went on trip to India.  We called ourselves “Two Idiots Abroad” which was apropos we felt since we worked for Sky and Sky had the TV Show An Idiot Abroad.  For any of those who have seen the series, us, in India, wasn’t far off.  An American and a Scotsman dumped in …

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Jun 19 2011

Data Crunch Crisis

I was reading an article in Slashdot today that got me thinking. I remember seeing an article about how Netflix represent 1/3 of network bandwidth in North America. Working for a media company that is both a content provider and Internet service provider, it is challenge to balance the problem, and I think it is …

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May 21 2011

PHP RESTful

I have been working with the dojo Toolkit for a couple of years and one of the things that I had to do was implement a RESTful class handler in PHP to support the ability to implement RESTful services.  In particular I wanted to use the dojox.data.JsonRestStore which supported things like filtering, lazy loading, paging and several other advanced …

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