Rather than try to reinvent the wheel and in order to keep in tune with the Open Source / Technical flavour of Skycon.... I've decided to give the talk on email filtering using MailScanner... Since that sounds very uninspired I'll see if I can come up with a sexier title. How about: Mine's big enough! - Filtering 50,000 users' mail using open source technology It doesn't have … [Read more...] about SkyCon Talk Topic
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Barcamp Southeast Roundup
I started writing this yesterday evening, but then I got distracted .... Anybody who knows me will happily agree that I am not a morning person - not unless I've had enough caffeine to kill an ox! However yesterday morning I was up at 7 in order to drive down to Waterford for BarCamp Southeast. Since there were a few of the Blacknight team going down we had arranged wakeup … [Read more...] about Barcamp Southeast Roundup
Do you know where you live?
Do you know where you live? That may seem like an odd question, but judging by some of the stuff Keith's found in our backend systems it might be a valid question to ask. NB: I have no way of seeing who supplied this information as we just ran queries on a section of the table... Ireland has 32 counties. 26 counties in the Republic and 6 in Northern Ireland.. or at least it … [Read more...] about Do you know where you live?
Skycon Talk?
Laura has put a gun to my head. I have to decide on a topic for my talk at Skycon and I've got about 24 hours to do it. For once I won't be the only representative from Blacknight presenting!! Paul, in a possible moment of madness, also agreed to give a talk. As he's a hardcore geek he'll probably be right at home, whereas I'm a little more wary. What should I give a talk … [Read more...] about Skycon Talk?
Podcasting For Idiots
I've been interested in the inner workings of podcasting for some time, though I still haven't actually got round to doing anything about it! In any case yesterday's BarCamp featured some really interesting people talking about cool stuff (not all of it was that geeky!). The first session that I made it into was given by two podcasters that I truly respect, Bernie Goldbach and … [Read more...] about Podcasting For Idiots