So, Amy and I decided to take some photos of the aquariums today

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UPDATE:

I’ve managed to get in contact with the domain register and pay for the domain to be renewed on behalf of the owner.  Plecofanatics.com is now back online!

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The owner of the site let the domain lapse which is why we’ve had trouble connecting. I’ve been in contact with the domain register and have paid the years domain renewal on the owners behalf so the site should start resolving in the next 48 hours.
Please notify the other fishy forums that the site isn’t dead – and anyone having difficulty connecting should try again soon.

Unfortunately the owner let the domain name expire… However:

For anyone wanting to access it still – add the following two lines to your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file:

65.38.173.164 plecofanatics.com
65.38.173.164 www.plecofanatics.com

You may have to flush your dns first and reopen your browser (in cmd type “ipconfig /flushdns”)

Hopefully the owner renews the domain soon.

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TBA

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Our new webserver is finally up and running… We needed to upgrade after hitting CPU load averages of 8+.

Dual Quad Cores: Nom Nom Nom…

Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #1 speed: 2000.131 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 6144 KB

Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #2 speed: 2000.131 MHz
Processor #2 cache size: 6144 KB

Processor #3 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #3 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #3 speed: 2000.131 MHz
Processor #3 cache size: 6144 KB

Processor #4 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #4 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #4 speed: 2000.131 MHz
Processor #4 cache size: 6144 KB

Processor #5 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #5 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #5 speed: 2000.131 MHz
Processor #5 cache size: 6144 KB

Processor #6 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #6 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #6 speed: 2000.131 MHz
Processor #6 cache size: 6144 KB

Processor #7 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #7 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #7 speed: 2000.131 MHz
Processor #7 cache size: 6144 KB

Processor #8 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #8 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #8 speed: 2000.131 MHz
Processor #8 cache size: 6144 KB

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Haha I wonder how many IT folk this actually rings true for…

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Don’t let web near your intranetz on the last day of work…

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Amy’s first time overseas so will be very exciting

BTW… KIWI!!

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Ha, George (the web designer in our team) took some photos of the “Web” work area today – my office and his cubicle (Phil and I have been tandem coding so sharing my office at the moment).

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XKCD is the *best* geek humour on the interwebs

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Finally the Craftfest site is live! Craftfest is one of the major projects that George, Philip and I have been working on at Expertise Events for the past two months. It’s the first of many sites to be launched on the new Xerxes² platform that Philip and I have been churning out for the past few months, the next evolution of our in house development framework and CMS, EMarketing, CRM and Ecommerce platform. This is the first major project that we’ve done as a team since I’ve rejoined Expertise and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with another passionate developer and designer.

We had a couple of hitches late last week which unfortunately delayed the launch until today, but the new site is humming along nicely. If you are at all interested in Craft shows and events, or want to shop for craft products from multiple retailers at once easy to use website, definitely check it out!

Anyway, this launch is phase one of the new Xerxes deployment. Stage two will come online towards the end of next week (The exhibitor portal which allows retailers to manage their products, projects and coupons online) followed shortly by our final phase – the staff system to allow the entire thing to be managed by our in house sales, marketing and co-ordinator staff members (rather than currently the three of us making ALL changes and updates). Craftfest is the first of many exciting projects the Expertise Web team are working on at the moment, so stay tuned!

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Heh

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Hahaha oh so scary

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Check this out:

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Phil (Developer friend I work with) has just set up his new blog on http://www.ph1l1p.net

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Fantastic podcast by Joe Stump (Lead architect @ Digg) about scalability and performance of php applications.

http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/deep-fried-bytes-episode-4-scaling-large-web-sites-with-joe-stump-lead-architect-at-digg/

Well worth listening to if you work on any large volume web applications

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The secret has been finally unveiled and so I’m now able to let my friends know Tomorrow I return to Expertise Events as the new Web Manager, to work on some very exciting projects! I’ll be working alongside two brilliant designers and developers on some serious and meaty projects which I’m chomping at the bit to start Also looking forward to working with my friends from Expertise again (Tim, Di and Lyndal especially!).

PrecariousPanther.net has been somewhat quiet over the past month whilst I’ve been wrapping things up at my previous position. I’m hoping to give it some more love in the next few months after things settle.

Still – stay tuned as these projects are very exciting and have the potential to have a major impact across many industries.

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Looks like Jerry Yang is being hung out to dry…

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/15/nytimes-article-reverberates-through-yahoo-whos-their-next-ceo/

Quote Michael Arrington from Tech Crunch

When blogs and regional newspapers trash Jerry Yang it’s one thing. But when the New York Times does it, people really notice. Public lynchings like this are few and far between from that bastion of traditional journalism.

Yesterday’s article by Joe Nocera, titled “Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby” was a stinging condemnation of Yang. It’s presented as a memo from Nocera to Yang, with the subject “Shafting Yahoo’s Shareholders” and outlines the many ways Yang has failed Yahoo’s shareholders and employees.

Yahoo actually did a deal with Google – their BIGGEST competitor just because they didn’t like the vibe of Microsoft; which demonstrates their reluctance has nothing to do with thinking their company was worth more – but that their CEO just doesn’t like the idea of Microsoft running “his” company. What he failed to see is it stopped being “his” company when he sold swathes of it off to investors for billions of dollars.

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Jericho fans are working hard to save the series… again – this time producing a “Save Jericho” TV commercial and raising the funds to have it broadcast during prime time over two hundred times. See the video after the jump.

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We just ordered new shirts from XKCD with this comic:

Epic

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Haha – love it. Seriously though – Facebook valued at $15 billion and people claiming there isn’t a tech bubble? The job market has gone nuts with designer and developers over the past few years and now the only candidates we get want North of $100k with less than a years experience “reskinning wordpress”. I was the *only* web developer when my IT crowd went into tertiary education; and now next to all of them after finishing their Computer Science degrees are switching across to web dev as it’s where the money is.

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