New look released

Fresh New Look

After much development we have reached the point of release for our new look website which we feel brings the site up to modern standards. If you find any problems please contact us so we can fix it.

Please check it out @ https://www.carehomes.net/

Problems with Jessie

Needs More Work, Our Side

We have run an evaluation of Debian for the live server and it broke our package manager and the install failed leaving Apache not running and the web server down so it seems some more testing needs to be done on our side.

This should be slated to happen within the next few weekends to run along side our new look which is coming along well an we have some parts of the website ported over and in our opinion are much better interfaces for our visitors.

It is to be expected because we have a highly customised installation with many config tweaks and such things.

I am sure with some more time and a better look at the big and small picture and we will have Jessie running as our default server OS.

New Debian Released

Hello Jessie

Debian have released their new version code named jessie ready for the early upgraders. We have recently moved back over to Debian for desktops due to the need for stability and I miss the system.

So now workstations use this version from now on and I will be upgrading my workstation at some point over the day.

There is the usual blog post about the new release which can be found here and there is a set of release notes about the new OS here.

It has taken 24 months of development time to get to this release and here is a list of what has been changed^[1]

• Apache 2.4.10
• Asterisk 11.13.1
• GIMP 2.8.14
• an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.14
• GNU Compiler Collection 4.9.2
• Icedove 31.6.0 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)
• Iceweasel 31.6.0esr (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)
• KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.11.13
• LibreOffice 4.3.3
• Linux 3.16.7-ctk9
• MariaDB 10.0.16 and MySQL 5.5.42
• Nagios 3.5.1
• OpenJDK 7u75
• Perl 5.20.2
• PHP 5.6.7
• PostgreSQL 9.4.1
• Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.2
• Samba 4.1.17
• Tomcat 7.0.56 and 8.0.14
• Xen Hypervisor 4.4.1
• the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment
• more than 43,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 20,100 source packages.

Including upgrading the workstations the server will be evaluated on the virtual machine to make sure the system works with our website and we have no problems with new software versions.

This will be slated for after the new look upgrade which is now half way and progressing well and it will allow our users to have a better experience and also have some eye candy.

[1] https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150426

Busy Working on New Look

Coming Soon

We have been working hard on bringing a new look website online and we hope to have some fresh content and improvements all over the site.

Stay Tuned!!

New Articles

Some Reading

I thought it would be a good idea to write a little post on a new contributor who join up with us and they have author a few care related articles for the website.

They have been written by Anne Rickards and are a quality read if you have some time and are interested in the care sector.

Moving Into a Care Home Following Bereavement is the first contribution and then a following article Creating Cheerful Care Homes covering hens in care homes has been added.

We hope you enjoy reading these and we hope to bring some more quality articles for you to read.

Care and Nursing Articles