Dale Macartney

Recently a friend pointed me in the direction of a rather useful piece of software for doing quite funky things with backing up and restoring PostgreSQL databases.
Most organizations I have seen using PostgreSQL and MySQL have always chosen to perform database backups locally on each server. This is fine and it works, but you need to ensure you take a backup of those backup files. I’ve not come across any piece...

Earlier today I covered adding display images or avatars to your Red Hat IDM/FreeIPA users. If you’re interested in storing user images in Red Hat IDM, you can read more how to do it by following my previous article here.
I’ve spent a bit of time this evening working on expanding that new ability into other aspects of my regularly used applications. The former article mentions integration with the ejabberd Instant Messaging service, however this article will be detailing...

In most organizations you will come across many systems and applications tapping into the identity management system as a means of keeping all user information central.
This could be anything from HR/Payroll, Email and chat services, as well as the security systems which handle those swipe pass access cards for secure building. Most of these even have a photo of the employee on the front....

Its impossible to be involved in technology these days without knowing what happened in the US with the PRISM program of illegally aquiring private information of people on an international scale.
As a result, this has somewhat changed the game and has made businesses start to re-evaluate their stance on putting personal and company data online with 3rd party cloud providers. This has resulted in projects like OwnCloud and Pydio to pop up and...