About Me
26 year old software developer located in Dublin, Ireland.
I work for EngineYard on Orchestra, the PHP Platform as a Service.
Email: ross.duggan@acm.org
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I run wthax.org and co-founded Ireland's first anime convention, EirtaKon.-
Recent Posts
- Reading list for scaling Solr
- I’m joining EngineYard to work on Orchestra
- Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles
- “Levelling the playing field” in education
- Munin plugins for Solr
- Google Plus
- Getting Windows 7 onto a USB stick using Ubuntu
- Searching Boards.ie – Solr, EC2, SQS, SNS, Node.js
- EC2: Create AMI from a running instance
- Gender breakdown for software development in Ireland
Category Archives: Boards.ie
Boards.ie on Capital D, RTE 1
Quick post to say that the opening feature of last night’s “Capital D” programme on RTE 1 was a special on Boards.ie. It features the Boards.ie Drama Group (No Drama) and the Boards.ie Soccer Team (Boardeaux), as well as Tom Murphy (DeVore) dropping in pearls of wisdom here and there throughout. If you’re in the [...]
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Things You Didn’t Know About Boards.ie – FOAF
This is going to be the first in a series of posts “documenting” (I use the term loosely) largely unknown or unused features of Boards.ie, stuff that you don’t generally find in your bog standard vBulletin install. I may occasionally post something of community significance, but my primary goal is to inform interested techies The [...]
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April Fool – Facebook Buys Boards.ie
Well this was I spent a good portion of of my working day doing on March 31st. About two weeks ago, the supermoderators, administrators and employees of Boards.ie starting asking what we should do for April Fool’s day. I had been poking around on vBulletin.org earlier and had come across a Facebook style skin, so [...]
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Things You Didn’t Know About Boards.ie – Twitter streams