Software requirements review: The workshop way
A few months ago Catalyst was asked by a potential client to go through the project requirements for an ePortfolio system with them in a workshop. There were […]
Kiwicon 9: Cyberwar is hell
As Security Manager at Catalyst, attendance at Kiwicon is pretty much mandatory each year. It was again pleasing to look around the crowds and recognise so many Catalyst […]
So…how do you make money when using free and open software?
People often ask how Catalyst IT can make money when promoting free and open software? The flippant answer is – “you don’t…and if you think you can, you’re […]
Leading through Open
A few weeks ago I joined five other Catalyst people at an Irish bar in New York, cheering on the All Blacks in their pulsating quarter-final Rugby World […]
OpenStack Summit Report
The Catalyst Cloud is built on an open source platform called OpenStack. Every six months OpenStack developers, operators, vendors and users get together for a summit where they […]
Kohacon15 – Ìbàdàn, Nigeria
Who would have thought, that a piece of software originally started in Wellington, New Zealand, would now be in use in almost every country in the world. I […]
JavaScript Graphing: The Good, The Bad and the IE8
At Catalyst IT, one of the common requests we get from our Moodle and Totara clients is that they want to be able to see a graphical representation […]
Moodle and PHP7… Are we there yet?
Moodle is an Open Source Learning Management System (LMS), used by educational and corporate entities worldwide. At Catalyst, we manage Moodle instances for organisations ranging from small sports […]
Time to Start Building Drupal 8 Sites!
The first Drupal 8 release candidate is out and to quote Dries Buytaert: “It’s time to start building!” The day is finally here, this morning release candidate one […]
Oh good – the TPP gives the IT Goliaths of the world a leg up!
By Don Christie Let’s hope the recent signing of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) doesn’t give the multinational Goliaths of the IT world a massive advantage over […]
CourseBank in Action – A Client Story
Recently, one of Catalyst IT’s Moodle clients – a large Sydney TAFE – came to us with a request to assist them to restore 17 of their backed-up […]
The Git submodule: misunderstood beast or remorseless slavering monster?
As the title suggests, submodules are a somewhat controversial topic amongst git users. Upon suggesting the idea of submodules to a team of developers you can expect to […]