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  • 12th January 2014

Raspberry Pi as NAS with Samba

This year I’ve bought a Raspberry Pi. I’ve wanted to play with it for a long time, but it was one of these things you keep delaying as I wasn’t sure what to use it for. After moving to London, and given that my NAS died, I found myself in need of a replacement, one that allowed me to install Crashplan on it if possible (for cloud backup). …

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  • 10th January 2014

Twilio and Play Framework

Another year, more technology to test :) Busy as I am in Gumtree, I’ve been able to test some interesting stuff. You know, evaluation of technologies to see if they make sense from a business perspective. Or playing around, it depends on the point of view ;) …

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  • 15th December 2013

Gumtree blog is live

It’s been a busy couple of months. I recently moved from Dublin to London to start working at Gumtree (and loving it so far!). If moving is always a hassle, moving across countries is that hassle tenfold. Fingers crossed everything will be done by Christmas… …

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  • 20th October 2013

On Learn Startup and Personal Waste

I recently finished reading The Lean Startup, a (relatively) new approach on development and innovation on software companies. An interesting and recommended reading for anyone involved in software development. …

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  • 21st September 2013

Enums to JSON in Scala

Scala gives the developer the possibility of using Enumerations. If they should be used or if Case Classes are better is a debate I’m not going to start here. They exist and they can be used. …

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