Oliver Jobson

Author: Oliver Jobson

  • Keys to success..

    Found this and thought I’d share – I think number 2 is one of the most important in becoming a an efficient ‘self-starter’. Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus, resilience, and perseverance. Do the

  • Delivering web video to mobile devices..

    Lately I’ve been trying to get Video on to mobile devices and it’s a maze of techniques, settings, programs and codecs for every device and device model so below I’ll try to clear up some missunderstandings and include codecs, settings and techniques for delivering web video on to some of the most popular devices of

  • Thinking Juice

    Whilst away sailing over Easter I read two great books that got me really motivated. The first was Seth Godin’s new book, ‘Poke The Box‘ which is the perfect book to read if

  • Easter Sailing

    Just spent 6 great days over easter sailing along the south coast with my parents and had an awesome time! I don’t think I really saw a cloud all week, we had good wind for the most part and even got to see dolphins too! There was the odd submarine, some

  • Waste

    This morning a Toshiba displayport cable, that I had ordered from eBay arrived in the post and I was quite shocked when I opened the box. Not one thick booklet, but two – a ‘User Guide’ (WTF?) and a

  • My first BrightonSEO..

    This year I was invited by Graeme & Jo of Site Visibility, our SEO agency, to attend the SEO seminar that they were sponsoring. I thought it would be a great chance to immerse myself in an industry which I have followed for some time, but never really ‘participated’ in. It started with what promised…

  • Load Balancing WordPress

    When we moved to WordPress, we ran into an issue with our load balanced servers – you can’t add a post to each server individually because of the unique post number added by wordpress when you publish – the post will have a different URL on each server which, because traffic could go to any…

  • MAMP (LAMP) for Mac – Hosting Multiple Sites (without the pro version)

    You don’t need to shell out for the pro version of MAMP to host multiple sites on your Mac. All it takes is a couple of tweaks behind the scenes. Once you have MAMP installed and working, configure MAMP to respond to web requests on port 80 (if you haven’t already done this). Next, simply…

  • An Earthquake, A Tsunami and a Nuclear Emergency…

    .. this may be a new definition of having a bad day. So the reactor safety systems: A BWR is similar to a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) in that the reactor will continue to produce heat even after the fission reactions have stopped, which could make a core damage incident possible if there were not…