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Flash is going EOL in 2020 but most browsers will drop support in mid-2019. Years ago the IT community and popular media got excited about the Y2K bug that was due to plunge us...

At the end of November, I had the privilege of attending Mahara Hui DACH18, Mahara Hui for Germany (D), Austria (A), and Switzerland (CH). The event was held at PH Wien, the...

SCORM 1.2 was released in 2001 and Flash was quickly adopted as an easy way to provide interactive elearning packages with popular authoring tools such as Articulate, Adobe...

I say this every year, and it is true every year, but this year's Kohacon was the best one yet. It wasn't just because of the fantastic food, coffee and craft beer in Portland,...

  I've been working with Koha for nearly seven years, and I'm attached to my job, because, every day I get to come to work and be part of a worldwide project that does...

The spirit of Agile development is to allow changes to happen when they are needed. The biggest benefit of running a test-driven development process is that the project does...

Catalyst recently contributed a new web analytics plugin to the Moodle plugins directory.   Our new plugin is the next step in an evolution of maturity in the collection,...

I recently passed a milestone in the journey of my career. I've now spent over two years as a formal "Business Analyst" or "BA" here at Catalyst IT. In actuality, I've been a BA...

The NZ SKA forum took place recently at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). This four-day event brought together a wide variety of national and international visitors who...

Around about now I should start emailing you to say, “come and talk to Catalyst about your library technology plans! Visit me at Stand 44 at #Vala2018!” right? Well, yes, but...

Qinling delivers Function as a Service (Serverless Computing) in OpenStack clouds. Lingxian Kong and Feilong Wang are senior cloud engineers from the Catalyst Cloud...

Introduction In my previous post I covered key concepts fundamental to understanding blockchain technology, and detailed a small handful of real world use-cases. In this post I...