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The 2009 Eighty Options Christmas sail was a new experience for some and thoroughly enjoyable for all.
Prepared with supplies of fresh sushi (ordered online from the recently launched www.sush.com.au/online) and a few beers, the Eighty Options team split into two crews of four and ventured into the Derwent...
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Well TH just finished up the last shift of the first Eighty Options Code Sprint Week and is heading back to Whistler for a few days of mountain biking. For those of us here at HQ in Hobart the post-sprint beers started mid-afternoon yesterday but as TH represents the team's latest timezone he was able to carry the baton a little further.
Code Sprint Week wasn't just a chance to clear a few projects but was an exercise in team building, skill sharing and improving efficiency. With a mixture of local and remote staff, multiple timezones and my own odd working hours to contend with,...
The use of Drupal in Australia has been growing with leaps and bounds recently, giving even more credit to the platform as a solid and scalable framework, and to the open source model under which it is developed. One particular noticable inclusion to the Drupal family is Kevin Rudd, who recently launched his new website and blog using Drupal at www.pm.gov.au. A few other notable sites are the following from the ABC:
Eighty Options is now offering hosted Microsoft Exchange featuring full integration with Outlook, Outlook webmail access, Spam and Virus protection.
This Software as a Service (SaaS) model features no contracts, no software or hardware just a flat monthly rate for each mailbox all linked to your own domain name.
Each mailbox has a 2GB limit and can cope with attachments of 50MB (twice the limit of most other providers)
Eighty Options has won an international tender to redevelop the public website of the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission. This project involves a multi-staged approach to developing the site. The first stage will be a migration of their existing static html site and moving it to Drupal. The second phase will be applying an updated theme to improve the look and feel of the site and the third phase will involve some custom developments to suit the business process of the commission with data feeds from operational systems internal to the commission. The project will be completed by...
Founded by Georgi Marshall and developed by Eighty Options, Cool Pool Tas proved a hit at Thursday's fuel summit. We look forward to developing the website further and to helping to reduce Tasmania's carbon emissions and road congestion.
