You’d probably not notice but this front page news section has been invaded today by ‘blog’ postings from elsewhere in the site. The reason for this is that we are now REALLY CLOSE to launching the new design for Community. (I can’t wait.  No really I can’t.) Getting all of the articles into ‘one blog’ will mean that we can control our content more easily, and make it easier to find, which will be important as the site develops.

New faces have been seen wandering the floors of PlusNet Towers trying to find their way  out where they are. Yes indeed, a gaggle of new starters have been orienteering their way around today as part of their orientation today.  So welcome to PlusNet you lot.

James in Comms

It’s been pretty quiet in the world of Comms today, with Matt and Mand being elsewhere.

I’ve been sat on the Marketing floor again helping out one of our new starters in the team. I’ve of course, also been posting in some forums and making some slow progress on my “Plans for 2008″ post. It’s going to be a bit of a monster! I’ve also been handling Dev Change Controls.

Chris on the other hand has been dealing with Change controls of the Network variety and doing his bit in the forums.

Bob’s been doing his normal bit of looking into Postini and fielding random questions from the CSC.

Full compliment back again tomorrow, so that’s always good.

Catherine in QA:

Life in QA continues today, with Gavin having gone home early to prepare for a rollout and the rest of us on problems and some project testing. It’s been a bit noisy down here in the dungeon today, though, with half the office playing musical chairs in another of the frequent desk moves. It keeps us all on our toes and makes sure everyone knows everyone else, I suppose….

And finally: we were discussing Postini and Matt R said it gave him the image of Mario sitting in the mail server on a pile of mail, sorting it and muttering ‘It’sa spam, it’sa not spam, it’sa spam’ to himself, then throwing the spams into a large bin. Cue much hilarity.

Denis from Networks, working from home today on getting new VPN links and keeping eye on Network department activities. Here is what everyone has been up to.

Ben B: working on getting the backup customer mysql db up

Dan P: tickets, tickets, Dspam training, 2x RIPA requests

Matt R: Just been working on tickets today, Mail and Traffic Management mainly

Michael P: Just housekeeping (It’s a huge amount of small tasks for getting all systems working well and stable)

Mark L: bit of partner work, fixing issue with firewall, webmail resilience planning

Mike G: backup storage work mainly, preparation for BV netapp work

Russell M: I’ve moved the OpsView(monitoring system) DB on to a vip - its now bullet-proof and general monitoring improvements

Simon B: Working on the new back up storage solution and planning the details of multiple maintenance tasks in London

Sarah R: Working on the Ellacoya configuration manager server

Richard P: I’ve been preparing for some work in one of our London data centres later this week and helping out with some DNS

Rizwan S: I worked on problems today as usual, fixed mail issues regarding Postini and been working on improvement of relay servers’ message handling

Martyn from Marketing:

Today we’ve learned that we’ve been named as a ‘First Class’ company by Best Companies. Chris has been working with them on getting surveys completed for what seems like years, so we’re delighted to have been recognised. Read more on Chris’s blog post.

We’ve also been working on promotional emails, a new testimonials page and, after popular demand in the forums, creating a newsletter archive. Phil and Tero are both out of the office today, so that’s a wrap for us. See you tomorrow.

Matt from Java team:

As the rest of the department works on MAAF, I have been developing a new messaging engine. It will ultimately provide a central place for us to send information to the customer. So it will be responsible for sending all messages regardless of when or that message is to be sent. This will be transparent as far as the end user is concerned, but for us, it should provide a system that is much easier to maintain and monitor.

The rest of the Java team has been concentrating on upgrading the whole platform to an updated version of Java and upgrading our application server to the latest release.

I’m looking forward to this work completing

No CSC post today?  That’s not good is it?  We’ll have to do better than that and make sure we keep those regular top 5 updates coming.

P-j

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