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08 January 2025

Welcome to Our Blog

Introducing the Bluehouse Technology blog where we'll share insights on software development, telecoms, and building mission-critical systems.

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31 July 2024

Creating a Software Centre of Excellence

How Bluehouse Technology approaches software development, player protection, and regulatory integration in the betting and gaming industry.

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04 October 2021

Racism in Everyday Use of Language

Reflecting on unconscious racism embedded in technical language and the case for changing terminology like whitelist and blacklist.

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11 October 2017

Building the Ideal Betting Stack

A talk exploring the ideal technology stack for online betting, comparing Go, Erlang, and Elixir for building highly available, concurrent systems.

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06 June 2017

How to Adopt Non-Mainstream Programming Languages

Why Erlang has made inroads into online gambling and betting, and how to evaluate non-mainstream technologies for your organisation.

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05 August 2015

Fear of AI

Discussing contemporary concerns about artificial intelligence development and whether humanity should fear AI.

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10 June 2015

Lessons Learnt Rewriting an Existing PubSub Erlang System

A talk from Erlang User Conference 2015 about the experience of rewriting one of bet365's first Erlang systems.

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19 February 2015

Next Step for Amazon

A proposal for Amazon to leverage its infrastructure by building a search engine exposed through AWS APIs.

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22 March 2014

A Publicly Funded Search Engine?

Proposing publicly funded search engines similar to the BBC model, treating search as essential public infrastructure.

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26 January 2014

Advertising

A critique of current advertising models and a proposal for pull-based advertising that respects user privacy.

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22 October 2013

FPDays 2013

Announcing my speaking engagement at FP Days 2013 functional programming conference.

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13 September 2013

Command Line Printing in Ubuntu

How to print files directly from the command line in Ubuntu without opening them graphically.

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12 May 2013

Sustainable Success

An essay on achieving sustainable organisational success through strong leadership and foundational principles.

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30 November 2012

Accountability and Responsibility

Exploring the distinction between accountability and responsibility in workplace contexts.

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25 November 2012

Performance Tuning of DMC

How Orange developed a real-time charging mediation system in Erlang and optimised it for high throughput.

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10 November 2012

Ingredients for a High Performance Software Development Team

Essential components for building high-performing software development teams based on 18 years of experience.

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30 September 2012

Disable Proxy When Using apt-get

How to manage proxy settings with apt-get when switching between office and home networks.

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05 September 2012

gSTM Configuration by Hand

Managing SSH tunnels by editing gSTM configuration files directly instead of using the GUI.

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