Christopher McCann
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Driving forward education with technology

By christophmccann On March 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

It is incredible to think how far our society has come, in such a short space of time, as a result of technology. I was born in 1990, and I remember the first computer my family got in 1994. We didn’t have internet, and all I ever did on it was play Hover, and continually [...]

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Deploying a Sinatra app with Passenger on EC2

By christophmccann On March 3, 2012 · 1 Comment

I’m currently re-writing Akita, an internal communication tool built on Twilio and Postmark, into Ruby using Sinatra. It was about time to deploy the application and this is the first I have deployed a Ruby web application without using Heroku. I thought I would write about the steps I took to get [...]

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Introducing Terrier, a quick solution for syncing Google Apps contacts

By christophmccann On March 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I have just pushed an initial commit of Terrier to GitHub. Terrier, written in Java, allows contacts to be synced from a master Google Apps account to all other Google Apps accounts. Google Apps is a little painful when it comes to shared contacts, so Terrier was my workaround to this. It will [...]

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New times, new blog!

By christophmccann On March 2, 2012 · 1 Comment

I have had an interesting year, of difficult and confusing decisions, but I’m glad to be back and setting up my new blog, which will have more of a focus on software engineering than my old blog, but I will also write about startups, entrepreneurialism and current news that interests me.

I am sure everyone (*cough) is [...]

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Post-mortem of Dizeo

By christophmccann On March 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This is an post from my previous blog that was written in April 2011. It is the only post I have carried over from my old blog and I am going to blog shortly on whether I still agree with what I wrote then. 

Sadly, we decided last week to call it a day on [...]

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