August 19, 2008 – 1:24 pm
All too often I need to release changes to a staging or live server and I always felt the releases were taking too long.
At Karova we use SVN and I always try and commit any releases in one changeset. I wrote a python script to archive all the files listed in a changeset. It’s been [...]
August 13, 2008 – 1:11 pm
This week I set off with the goal of making one of our web applications alot easier to deploy. The tools I chose were -
Web Application Installer (WAI)
Wix (Windows Installer XML)
WixEdit
I’d played with all three before but never really got past prototype stage. I’ve spent the last day learning wix and all the elements relevant [...]
Since coming back to Karova, I’ve been doing ALOT more management of projects than I did before. Usually what happens is I get the projects once they’ve been spec’d (and prototype’d if appropriate) and then I manage the completion of the project from dev->staging->live and then pass it back to billing.
We always have a good [...]
Do you Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader? When you become a DTL you work balance is up for a bit of a change.
A very good article on the differences between a developer and a Dev team leader. It’s very true.
Late February of this year I started back working for Karova. As I lived in Dublin at the time it meant a monster of a commute every week, staying at a friends during the week and coming back to Dublin at the weekends. I still do the same commute but I now have my own [...]
A third party currently hosts our mail @ karova and I wanted to either host it ourselves or move to gmail with Google Apps. As a proof of concept I’ve moved the mail for the philroche.net domain to gmail. I have to say I am very impressed. I signed up for the 30 day free [...]
February 1, 2008 – 1:59 pm
It’s now official. I am returning to Karova at the start of March. I’ll have more news later on my future role but I am excited to be going back and focussing on Karova’s projects and products.
I have a few days off in between jobs so I’ve decided to go to the Irish Web Technology [...]
I was away for close to four years, three of which were in the UK and one in Australia. I now find myself back in my mums house. It’s only temporary until myself and two buddies move into a friends house for at least a year (the house owner [Dan ] is on a [...]
November 6, 2006 – 7:26 pm
We @ Karova are hiring talented developers. We’re advertising on CWJobs and on the newly created jobs.joelonsoftware.com.
C# Software Developer on CWJobs.co.uk
Software Developer on jobs.joelonsoftware.com
I managed to grab a screenshot of Karova on the front page of the jobs.joelonsoftware.com site.
August 31, 2006 – 9:55 pm
As part of Karova’s expansion, we are looking at taking on 2 more graduate developers. If you want to apply, you’ll need at least a 2:1 in a technical degree, knowledge of object oriented programming techniques, XML and XSLT, web standards and CSS. C# would be benifical, as would a good grasp of IIS. If [...]
