Round the Bays 2018 - lessons learnt
I'll be honest, enrolling and organising a fun run for colleagues, sounded like anything but 'fun'. How does the words fun and run even go together? I suspect using the tag “Dumb...
Open values at VALA2018
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...
An introduction to Inkscape for absolute beginners
Image credits : John Morgan on Flickr, CC BY 2.0
Inkscape is a powerful, open source desktop application for creating two-dimensional scalable vector graphics....
Congratulations Brimbank Libraries! Welcome to the Koha Community.
Late last year, Brimbank Libraries undertook a major upgrade to their library software system. With the support of Catalyst IT, Brimbank replaced their 20 year old library...
Serverless Computing in OpenStack
Qinling delivers Function as a Service (Serverless Computing) in OpenStack clouds.
Lingxian Kong and Feilong Wang are senior cloud engineers from the Catalyst Cloud...
Blockchain 101 - part 2
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...
Work In Progress
On November 8, some Catalystas attended the Work in Progress Conference in Wellington.
We had the privilege of listening to a whole day of incredible speakers who opened our...
Moving away from Symantec Certificate Authorities
An ever-growing number of security issues have been identified with certificates issued by Symantec Certificate Authorities (CAs) over recent years. Affected certificates include...
Cutting our AWS spend in half
It often seems that, by default, our AWS monthly spends go in only one direction - up.
Our AWS cost reduction strategy has evolved over time, through the work we’ve done for...
Security vulnerabilities: what you need to know
Wi-Fi KRACK
Overnight, security weaknesses have been published in the WPA2 protocol used by most home and commercial Wi-Fi systems, including public Wi-Fi. The attack that...
Koha plus FOLIO: a solution for connected library services
Introduction
Catalyst and Bywater Solutions are both vendors for Koha library management system. We have worked together in the Koha community for 8 years. Both...
Blockchain 101
You’ve heard of bitcoin, and you read about Silk Road a while back. Bitcoin is just ‘geek money’ and you can’t possibly do anything useful with it... right?
Wrong.
The bar...
