I want to learn Development and eventually move into a development role. But what is the difference between development and what I already do? Put simply Development or programming is the creation of new programs, websites or databases. IT Operations or System Administration is the administration of existing servers,...

You may not have heard of Nagios but it has saved my bacon quite a few times. Nagios is an open source server monitoring application that runs on many linux flavours. I can’t remember exactly when I first installed nagios but I am guessing it was sometime in 2007/8. My boss gave me a book about it (which I never read)...