Infrastructure for the 2008 dig Andy Gatward has been keeping me up to date with the plan for LAN and WAN on the dig this year. We had a meeting a few months ago with IT Services where we laid out what we wanted. This post has some of the info I have received from [...]

Recycle Bridge presentation at the 2008 JISC conference VERA was invited to present the Recycle Bridge on the OSS Watch booth at the 2008 JISC conference. This the blurb from the conference program: “Rather than reengineering existing web applications, which have considerable development effort and are used by huge number of users, the Recycle Bridge is able to consume [...]

Royal Society RESN poster Today I attended a workshop at the Royal Society (the guys who invented peer review for papers) about environmental e-Science. We were invited to present a poster about our work on the Reading Environmental Sensing Network project. The day was very interesting with international speakers describing a myriad of projects [...]

Adding a new user to MySQL mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON databasename.* TO "username"@"hostname" IDENTIFIED BY "password"; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)