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Network fundamentals explores how computer networks are designed to enable the sharing of data taking into account three key requirements: Performance. The sharing of data and resources doesn’t degrade the computers on the network. Reliability. The network doesn’t fall over all the time. Security. Data is only shared with those that should have access to it. Types Peer to Peer is where every node on the network has equal access to the network and each node shares data and resources....

Kick-off’s are a great way of bringing a new team together at the start of a new project or phase of a project. The aim is to allow the team to get to know one another and to allow all the team members to understand the goals and objectives. I recently helped facilitate a kick-off for the alpha phase of the ‘Protect’ service (working title). Although Protect had been through a discovery phase, circumstances meant that the Alpha team was quite different to the Discovery team....

I love hill climbing and mountaineering, ever since I was dragged up Pen-Y-Fan and got mild hypothermia in the scouts at about the age of 13. One of the best things yomping up hills has taught me is the nature of risk. So I was a bit surprised when I saw this tweet from Vasco Duarte: Friends, let's collect a list of domains where Risk ELIMINATION is priority #1: Climbing; Air travel industry; what else?...

Find Property Information is a GOV.UK service being developed by HM Land Registry which aims to provide a simple summary of property information. Recently we have improved our ‘postcode search’ functionality. Why did we do this? Our first iteration of searching was developed over a year ago, we knew the limitations of it, but it was ‘good enough’ for the early stages of the service. This allowed us to move onto developing other features....

I’m slightly overwhelmed by how well Route 1 has been received I have had some lovely feedback and suggestions for future routes. One such suggestion is to do something shorter that children can take part in, so where better than around Millbay. I can test it with my own kids as they go to Plymouth School of Creative Arts which is the starting point for this route. There are loads of quirky little features in and around Millbay, its relatively flat and the route is only 2km....