ScaleConf 2017
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending ScaleConf here in Wellington for the second time. For the second year running, the conference was sponsored […]
Follow The Sun Support – One Year In
Catalyst started up in 1997, and from humble beginnings as an outsourced services company we have grown to over 250 staff globally, with seven offices across Australia, New […]
Work, family, diversity
It’s disappointing to see Jacinda Ardern being grilled about her plans for parenthood, less than 24 hours in as the leader of the Labour party. As well as […]
Arduino Academy 2017
We’ve been holding our Arduino Academy for several years now, but this is the first time our participants have been all female. Needless to say, we get pretty […]
How many other IT companies have a Kapa Haka?
I’m going to hazard a guess and say, not many, if any. As part of our birthday celebrations, all the staff of our NZ offices spent Friday the […]
20 Years Ago
20 years ago Jim Bolger was still our Prime Minister, the All Blacks made a clean sweep of the Bledisloe Cup and Wellington became the first city in […]
How to run a conference
I recently had the pleasure of directing the first national JavaScript conference for New Zealand, which took place in Wellington earlier this year. The conference, nz.js(con); lasted for […]
What’s an Inkscape?
Inkscape is free and open source drawing software. It’s available for Linux (of course), but also for Windows, and for MacOS too. It’s a tool for drawing 2D […]
Koha adventures in India
A few times a year Chris Cormack gets on a plane to somewhere really interesting to talk about Koha. Chris was the original developer of Koha and is […]
JMeter as a Load Testing Tool
Catalyst manage a lot of Enterprise web applications, enough that we are always seem to be upgrading one instance or another. More and more in the world of […]
DevOpsDays Sydney 2016
Late last year, I attended DevOpsDays Sydney 2016 Conference. This conference aims to have all participants, learning and sharing ideas of adopting DevOps practice. The conference was entirely […]
Catalyst Open Source Academy 2017
I want to talk (or is that blog?) about something that makes Catalyst a fantastic place to work. Something that challenges the minds of the next generation.Something that […]