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
Recent Comments
- Leon Woodward on Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles
- SamFisher@SamsungHD on Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles
- Declan on Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles
- Sully on I’m joining EngineYard to work on Orchestra
- Ross on I’m joining EngineYard to work on Orchestra
Categories
Development
Recreational
Technology
DeveLinks – 24-05-2009
IE6 Update – A rehash of the Trick-People-Into-Upgrading-IE idea that still fails to realize the primary problem that a large percentage of IE6 users are only doing so for backward compatibility with legacy software firms can’t afford to have rewritten (via @AMcDermott).
Facebook Developer Garage Ireland – Another Facebook dev event is running in Ireland sometime in June. I don’t personally know anyone who has made a Facebook app that made them money, but I’m sure there’s opportunity there due to the sheer size of the userbase. (via SiliconRepublic)
Why the “Knowledge Economy” Will Bring Ireland out of the Recession – I have decided to read this article as favourable towards myself and anyone else working On The Tubes, as it were.
Mobile Browser Testing – A suite of tests being performed on mobile browsers by QuirksMode.
Flare – distributed, and persistent key-value storage compatible w/ memcached (via Justin Mason)