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About Ollie

OllieWeb technologist with the know-how to Release the Power of Information by creating collaborative environments for staff to share effectively the knowledge within their organisations. Recipients of consultancy on rich internet applications, from inception to lifecycle support, have benefited from remodelled and renewed revenue streams.

An expert in delivering business and enterprise grade applications from recruitment software to customer relationship management to data collection and warehousing platforms. Practical programming skills are particularly strong in user interface and experience application development with the latest Web2.0 technologies..

Specialities

Management skills: Project Management, Web Systems Architect, Consultancy on Rich Internet Applications, Server Administration, System Deployment and Developer Collaboration/Management.

Expert technical skills: Linux (Redhat & CentOS), Zend (PHP, Zend Platform, PEAR, PECL), Application Layer Programming (MVC, ORM, RAD, OOP, SVN), MySQL (SQL, PDO, Replication), UI Development (JavaScript, Prototype, Mootools, ExtJS, jQuery, Flex, WebObjects, XML, JSON, AJAX, CSS, XHTML)

Recent posts

Zimbra and Spam Assassin Y2k10 bug...

Published on 25th March 10 by Ollie Maitland

All the Y2K issues were after all quite a let down yielding almost no exciting failures or blue screens of death.

I did however come across a minor bug in Zimbra and Spam Assassin today which was slightly confusing and an example of some pretty bad programming. Spam Assassin has a number of rules which determine whether an email is valid or not; one such rule is whether an email is dates "grossly in the future".

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Tagged with : mta, sysadmin

Vision of the web

  • 100% ACID score on all browsers
  • Cloud web hosting please!
  • I'd love to see Push Technology application frameworks for the masses
  • Enterprise web application frameworks with common data protocols
  • Cheap bandwidth for everyone

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