2016 Christmas Shutdown

Christmas is fast approaching and we wanted to let you know that Dogsbody Technology will be taking some time off to celebrate the festive season. Our office will be closed on the following days and response to emails maybe slower: – Fri 16 Dec 2016 – Office Closed after 13:00 – Fri 23 Dec 2016 […]

Five Go on a Hacking Weekend

Last weekend (25th & 26th November 2016) Dogsbody Technology headed off to St. John’s church Hoxton in Shoreditch, London to attend (what turned out to be the last) Over the Air 2016. Over the Air is an annual 2-day mobile developer event with a mix of technical workshops put on by the community, a Hackathon to celebrate programming & making as […]

See you at Over the Air 2016

On 25th & 26th November 2016, Dogsbody Technology are off to a church in Shoreditch, London to attend Over the Air 2016 which is now in it’s 9th year. This is our fifth year going to Over The Air with our founder Dan going on his own the first year and bringing the whole company each […]

Open-sourcing our Raspberry Pi Displayboard

Our office warboard runs off a simple Raspberry Pi plugged into a wall mounted TV however the code to get this to work reliably has taken a bit of tweaking over the years. Today we continue our efforts to give back to the open source community by publishing our recipe for a solid, stable displayboard […]

Types of SSL Certificates

The number of businesses that use SSL have increased tremendously over the past few years and the reasons for which SSL is used has also increased, for example: Some businesses need SSL to simply provide confidentiality (i.e. encryption) Some businesses like to use SSL to add more trust or confidence in security and identity (they […]

How will CentOS 5 end of life affect me?

On 31st March 2017, CentOS 5 reaches end of life (EOL). We recommend that you update to CentOS 7. Over time technology and security evolves, new bugs are fixed and new threats prevented, so in order to maintain a secure infrastructure it is important to keep all software and systems up to date. Operating systems […]