http://www.kasei.com/ en-us 2006-03-09T22:28:49+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/002672.html For a long time Marty has been a fanatical supporter of the Free Software movement and has been using Free Software exclusively at work and home for over a decade. When local interest in Free Software / Open Source... Karen 2006-03-09T22:28:49+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/001039.html We have been working for some time on Twingle, a tool for finding information in your email. The original, server-based version of this used the Jakarta Lucene engine, through the Perl-Java bridge of Inline::Java However, in order to fully... Tony 2004-02-02T18:37:18+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/000983.html Although we originally promised to use this weblog to rant about the sorry state of ecommerce, it's still my preferred means of shopping. At Christmas this is even truer, as traditional shopping becomes an absolute nightmare. More than ever,... Karen 2003-12-06T19:17:54+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/000947.html IT Week this week references the Web Effectiveness Report 2003, which, amongst other things, reveals that only 19% of web site managers surveyed review their log files to look for problems with their site. When we originally built BlackStar... Tony 2003-10-24T10:20:27+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/000759.html Recently, we were told that Mars was closer to the earth than it has been at any time in the past 60,000 years. This gained much media attention, and sparked a wider interest in astronomy amongst the general public. This... Methodology Marc 2003-09-25T11:53:49+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/000825.html Software development methodologies are designed to help us produce cleaner, better and more maintainable code. Books and journals are produced at a staggering rate, filled with the latest answers to all our coding and maintenance woes. As programmers we are... Methodology Marc 2003-08-04T15:13:41+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/000822.html We've been a little quiet of late, mostly due to the conference season. Last week we were at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon, where: Marty gave his Playing Together tutorial on using a GNU/Linux system to... Kasei 2003-07-18T13:07:18+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/000791.html A few years ago I worked in a team implementing a large system to automate many time-consuming tasks for a client. Our goal was to improve the productivity of the client's staff by freeing them from these tasks, and... Karen 2003-06-27T21:30:20+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/000785.html About two years ago I opened a current account with first direct. Until then I had been banking with the Halifax for well over a decade. Contact from the Halifax always seemed like bad news, even if was just... Marty 2003-06-20T14:57:29+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/000771.html At the Emerging Technology Conference last month I attended several of the sessions where Amazon staff talked about their web-services infrastructure. What they're attempting to do here is very interesting, and I'm sure we'll write more about it at a... Tony 2003-06-10T11:36:31+00:00 http://www.kasei.com/archives/000740.html We have spent quite a while wondering what we should do with this website. Like many companies who work with internet technology, our own site has never been much of a priority. It would have seemed to be minimalism... Kasei 2003-06-05T18:45:00+00:00