Blogs by Aaron Williams

There was a lot of activity around the school today and all the projects are progressing well.  Despite the grey skies overhead, the rain has stayed away, and with the kids getting involved everyone is feeling really upbeat.  The status of our projects around the school are as follows:
Jungle Gym
The remaining uprights for the jungle [...]

One of the worst kept secrets in Apple IPhone history was confirmed yesterday with the announcement of the new Apple IPhone at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC).
Apple have taken a leaf from the automotive industry by appending an “S” to the souped up version on their new phone and are calling it the IPhone-3G [...]

If you work in the digital space long enough (or are brave enough to venture into the dark windowless rooms where developers are often found slaving away behind computers), you are likely to hear the acronym API.
So what is an API and what can they do for my business?
API stands for Application Programming Interface and [...]

Those of you who have visited Google’s Webmaster Tools recently will have noticed a link at the top of the page inviting users to “check out our new look”.  
I have been using the new look and feel for the past fortnight and it is a definate improvement over the old site, with improvements to [...]

Social media concerns me. Despite being a regular user of Facebook and Twitter I am very conscious of the long term implications these tools have for individuals personal privacy.
As an example, if an individual chooses to post information about what they did on the weekend that is fine, however what if the same post [...]

From the moment I assembled my first computer I have been fascinated by the idea of building my own computational cluster, however the sheer cost involved has always stopped me, until now.

I quite often get asked by clients where they should be spending their limited design/build budget and my answer is nearly always the same. Get a good CMS.  A well implemented CMS will pay for itself many times over and will give your organisation a competivie edge.  Below are three of the top reasons for [...]

Evaluating and comparing new technology solutions can often be a daunting task, with everyone from suppliers to Internal IT having their own vested interest in a particular outcome, it is often hard for individuals from a Non-IT background to find the right solution.

Early in my career I undertook a Microsoft course on [...]

Peer to peer (p2p) networks have been in the news again recently with the founders of the PirateBay (a peer to peer file sharing site) receiving jail sentences for their roles in contributing to copyright infringement.
It is important to note however that P2P networking is not all about file sharing and copyright infringement.  There are [...]

I recently purchased a new Western Digital 1TB external hard drive for Tamar on which to archive a large quantity of HTML files.  The drive arrived the day after I ordered it and within 5 minutes of unpacking the box, it was attached to my laptop and appeared to be working correctly.
I then started [...]