Category Archives: karova


Step away from the code

June 6, 2008 – 12:16 pm

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 […]

By philroche | Also posted in xslt, software | Comments (0)

Do you Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?

May 13, 2008 – 2:19 pm

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.

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Monster Commute

April 19, 2008 – 4:18 pm

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 […]

By philroche | Also posted in Ireland, Wales | Comments (2)

Moving Email to Gmail with Google Apps

March 11, 2008 – 9:53 am

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 […]

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Irish Web Technology Conference 2008

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 […]

By philroche | Also posted in General, Ireland, conference | Comments (2)

Back under my mums wing

April 10, 2007 – 4:13 pm

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 […]

By philroche | Also posted in General, Ireland | Comments (9)

I need peers

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.

By philroche | Also posted in Techie, c#, jobs | Comments (1)

Graduate c# devleopers x2 wanted

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 […]

By philroche | Also posted in General, Techie, css, c#, javascript | Comments (2)