Technology

Note taking in OneNote

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I have been planning on writing a blog on notetaking and notetaking applications and in particular, how to take digital notes using handwriting. I find handwriting is kinesthetic and I am more likely to remember what I have handwritten than typed and of course there is the usual discussion anout how intrusive (or not) kthe […]

Work

Better learning & teaching spaces for you

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Over the last 12 months, University IT has been busy upgrading Audio Visual systems in a number of learning & teaching spaces across campus. Some of the latest areas to be updated include 07AZ01 and 12 rooms within the Duke of Kent Building. The newly installed systems have been developed by IT with input from […]

Technology

Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing

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One of my favorite Amazon Leadership Principles is Customer Obsession. When we launched AWS Lambda, we focused on giving developers a secure serverless experience so that they could avoid managing infrastructure. In order to attain the desired level of isolation we used dedicated EC2 instances for each customer. This approach allowed us to meet our security goals but forced us […]