My name is Charlie Boisseau, I am an IT & Telecoms professional based in Edinburgh, Scotland. This website contains some of my previous and existing projects.

I no-longer maintain a blog on this site, so you can check out what I'm up-to on a more regular basis by checking out my twitter feed.

Net Tool Box

A shareware network tool I wrote some years ago while at School and University. Net Tool Box is a multi-purpose network utility for Mac OS X. Includes GUI for Ping, Traceroute, Live Netstat, Live Packet Capture and much more.

Programming

Back in my Mac development days, I wrote some public classes for REALbasic:

• ICMP Socket   A full REALbasic implementation of the ICMP protocol. [ReadMe]
• FTP Upload Class   A lightweight class to upload files over FTP. [ReadMe]
• Airport Classes   A set of declares for Apple's private Airport framework. [ReadMe]

Factotum Technical

Day-to-day you can find me at the healm of Factotum Technical, an Edinburgh-based IT and Telecoms firm. We specialise in cross-platform networks as well as VoIP telephony. I'm very proud that we now own and maintain our own VoIP network and hosted PBX product called 'Fluency'.

UK Phone Number Prefixes

I maintain a databse of phone number allocations for the UK, as published by the regulator Ofcom. I built an online search facility to allow you to browse all UK numbering allocations.

Transparent Proxy with Dansguardian, Squid & Cisco Routers

An article I wrote a while ago, documenting the reasons and technical methodology used in creating a transparent proxy server for web content filtering.

Managing Postfix Mail Aliases (On OS X Server)

Explains how to pipe incoming mail to a server-side script and create a noreply blackhole address on Mac OS X Server.