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Another very quick post showing you how to fix the most common error you get when installing the mySQL gem on a clean Ubuntu installation.

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BeBox routes have issues handling large numbers of UDP connections, so much so that you can get issues where the connection pool becomes exhausted. This post will explain how to adjust the UDP timeout setting on the router.

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A very fast & quick tutorial on how you can create completely empty GIT branches which are seperate and isolated from your other branches.

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You can set the default branch on Github to point at something other than master, but i'll show you how can you swap around a development branch with master while keeping the old in a legacy branch.

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Here I propose some ideas about how we don't need to put up with dull and old looking monitoring systems and how we can revamp these systems and show this data in a client friendly way.