One of the wonders of the modern internet is the ability to share content and have it accessible from anywhere in the world instantly. This allows the spread of information to take place at unparalleled speeds, and can result in a sort of virtual flash mob where something gets very popular very quickly without the […]
People have always relied on 3rd parties to provide services for them, and this is especially true in the technology sector. Think server providers, payment providers, image hosting, CSS & JS libraries, CDNs etc. The list is endless. Using external providers is of course fine, why re-invent the wheel after all? You should be concentrating […]
There are three main stages in a servers lifetime; building/configuring, usage, and being decommissioned, with the usage section usually being by far the largest section in terms of time. For this reason, it’s obviously important to make sure that the server is optimally configured, secure and able to be reproduced/replaced easily in the event of […]
HTTP/2 is a fairly new technology, offering significant improvements over its predecessors, whilst remaining backwards compatible with previous web browsers and services. HTTP/2 is only going to get bigger, and it’s certainly not going away any time soon, so here’s some stuff you should know about it. Before we get too in depth with the […]
This weekend we attended Electromagnetic Field (EMF) in Guildford. EMF is all about making things, breaking things, fixing them again, and learning a whole lot of stuff whilst you’re doing it, either directly through your hacking and experimentation, or via any of the fantastic talks and workshops, of which there were many. We headed to […]
Today is IPv6 day. IPv6 day aims to evaluate and promote public IPv6 deployment as it was designed to eventually completely replace IPv4. We embrace IPv6 technology at Dogsbody Technology and want to help promote it, so we thought we’d write a blog post telling you why we think it’s great. But first, what is […]
In this blog post we’ll talk about time, how it works, why it’s important to computers, and how NTP can be used to manage the time on computer systems. “You may delay, but time will not.” ― Benjamin Franklin Intro to NTP NTP (Network Time Protocol) allows computers on a network to synchronise their system […]
Today is Data Privacy Day! It’s been taking place annually on the 28th of January since 2007, and this year is no different. As you may have worked out already, data privacy day is all about protecting and maintaining your privacy, especially in the online world. One of the main focuses of the day is […]
On the morning of Friday the 25th of September the Dogsbody Technology team set out for the weekend, heading to London for the 7th annual Over The Air event. Over The Air is a combination of a hack day, workshops and talks, giving people the chance to make awesome stuff and learn new things whilst […]