About Marius

Owner of Henriska Technology and Project Manager by profession.

Customer Requirements and complexity

Mark Cathcart wrote on his blog about complexity and completeness and I quote one statement he made:

The real challenge though that IBM faces, is not the complexity of our products, but the complexity of our customers.

 
This is so true.  How often does we not stare us blind against the complexity of products (anybody that has worked with WebSphere know what I talk about)? Sometime there is a very simple solution to a customers complex requirements.  The customer does not care how complex your product or solution is, all he cares about is whether his requirement is met and his business problem is solved.  In the end it is all about customer satisfaction!

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Checky birds next to my house


kiewiet
Originally uploaded by Marius.

Went for a stroll today and in an open area next to where I live, I found this 2 birds (in afrikaans they called a kiewiet) which made a hell of a noise as I walked past. The one even had the cheek to chase me. I did not hang around, did not want to disturb them just in case there was chicks or eggs around.

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Firefox is the talk of the town

And I quote

Within 24 hours of the official launch on Tuesday, there were over 2 million people using Firefox 2, and we were seeing a peak rate of more than 30 downloads per second from our website.

I love it to see IE and in particularly IE7 being beaten and I cannot wait for the day that Firefox is used on more user desktops than IE (wishfull thinking on my part, I know)

Update: Christopher Blizzard said it a lot better than me …

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In search of a new host

I am in search of a new hosting evironment which basically must offer the following:

  • Reseller hosting
  • WHM and cPanel support
  • PHP – version 5.1.4 (pref version 5.1.6)
  • PHP-PDO support for MySQL enabled (default is to only enable it for sqlite2)
  • MySQL obviously.
  • Around 2GB disk space
  • Around 5GB bandwidth allocation
  • Apache mod-rewrite support
  • Support for .htaccess at a directory level
  • Postgres support would be a bonus — give me some playground for it 🙂

If you know of any hosting company that provide this and does not change and arm and a leg the please leave a comment or contact me.

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Ubuntu 6.10 released

I totally forgot to say something about the release of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) yesterday.  There is a lot of great things in it and go and download your copy.

Also earlier this week Ubuntu walk away with the award for the best Linux distribution.  Congrat to Mark and all the guys and gals that have worked on Ubuntu.  Wish I could have joined them later next month at Googleplex for the next Ubuntu summit.

Now onto Festy Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) 🙂
Update: It is Feisty and not Festy

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