Decisions, decisions, decisions

Posted on June 12th, 2008 in General, Personal, Technology by Jim Prince


Over the last six months there’s been a wealth of mini laptops appear on the market. I’m fully intending to get one. Question is which one? At the moment I’m leaning towards the Acer Aspire one which certainly seems to offer the best value for money.
I guess I’ll just have to be patient and wait and see.

Alternatives are the Asus EEE PC, the Dell Mini Inspiron and the HP 2133.

Update: I forgot about the MSI Wind and here’s a post about about Dell’s offering.


Recruiting for SharePoint experts

Posted on June 9th, 2008 in Technology, Work by Jim Prince

The provider of some of UK’s largest and most versatile WSS/MOSS deployments requires a SharePoint Support Know-All to work in our thriving 3rd Line Team. Providing the ultimate trouble shooter knowledge to customer sites with six figure user bases you’ll need fantastic all round WebDev skills, a full grasp of all things WSS/MOSS WebApps, WSPs, SSPs, AAM, IIS, STSADM, Web.Config – great knowledge of the surrounding technologies AD, MSSQL, ISA and most critically the kind of personality that gets a kick out of solving often very difficult intangible Web related problems. A C#/ASP.net coding background is a distinct advantage. you’ll be working with similar star trouble shooters in a team that is heavily relied on to provide answers on a daily basis, so a good sense of humour, eagerness to dive in and a sense of all round calm are pretty important.

Interested? Let me know. We’re also looking for people with more general MS Infrastructure skills.


It’s official!

Posted on June 6th, 2008 in Technology, Work by Jim Prince

Synetrix


To quote from our press release

Over 600,000 pupils from across the East Midlands are now benefitting from a groundbreaking £45m service that is helping to boost learning, whilst protecting their online safety

The East Midlands Broadband Community (embc), a procurement partnership of 8 local authorities (Derbyshire, Leicester City, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire and Rutland, has teamed up with IT specialist Synetrix to develop one of the most extensive and advanced learning systems in the world.

As well as having safe and secure internet access in over 2000 schools, pupils are able to access and share their schoolwork and teaching online, chat and e-mail to each other and create their own personalised web sites within a secure community of registered users.

It’s been hard work but it’s cool to be involved in something so undeniably massive and technically challenging. There’s still a lot to do but I’m really looking forward to it.