We're still sad, missing über-intern Greg, but we've been cheered up by playing darts on the board he left as a parting gift. Mossy and Martin have been struck down by Darter's Elbow already, much to the delight of the rest of us. Thanks again Greg - it was a really well chosen present and is much appreciated.
This week Mossy and I rolled out an upgrade to IKEA's FAMILY system. We're utilising Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager to provide geo-redundancy across datacentres, and I've been very impressed with how the Azure platform makes features such as this so straightforward. I did get caught out by the fact that Internet Explorer caches DNS records, but everything is working great now.
John has rolled out fixes and new features for a number of clients, including PerfectCard and IKEA. He's really found his feet now and doing great work. Meanwhile Martin has turned the first sod on a new project for CIS so it's all go. When Tomas gets back from holiday next week there'll be no easing back in to it - sorry Tomas!
The big surprise of the week was discovering that Pinchy the Crayfish is a lady - she's carrying eggs under her tail to prove the point. Hooray! It's about time we got a bit of gender balance in the office!