I’m going to miss…

Last Wednesday saw the long awaited return of the ever fantastic Oxford Geek Night. Thanks to all involved, and all who came, and especially the keynote and microslot speakers for making it an awesome night! The first speaker was a woman called Leila Johnston who gave an interesting talk called “Making things fast”, I suggest […]

Marcus Povey

Last Wednesday saw the long awaited return of the ever fantastic Oxford Geek Night. Thanks to all involved, and all who came, and especially the keynote and microslot speakers for making it an awesome night! The first speaker was a woman called Leila Johnston who gave an interesting talk called “Making things fast”, I suggest […]

Tips for building web services on Amazon AWS

Amazon, who are most widely known for their online shop, has another project called Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering website authors a collection of very powerful hosting tools as well as hybrid cloud services. This is not a sideline for Amazon – a recent conversation I had with an Amazon guy I met at a Barcamp revealed […]

Marcus Povey

Amazon, who are most widely known for their online shop, has another project called Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering website authors a collection of very powerful hosting tools as well as hybrid cloud services. This is not a sideline for Amazon – a recent conversation I had with an Amazon guy I met at a Barcamp revealed […]

How to set up ProFTP, MySQL and Virtual Users

ProFTP is a configurable FTP server available on most *nix platforms. I recently had the need to get this working and authenticating off a PHP maintained MySQL backend, and this post is primarily to aid my own memory should I ever have to do it again. Installing ProFTP In order to use MySQL as a […]

Marcus Povey

ProFTP is a configurable FTP server available on most *nix platforms. I recently had the need to get this working and authenticating off a PHP maintained MySQL backend, and this post is primarily to aid my own memory should I ever have to do it again. Installing ProFTP In order to use MySQL as a […]