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.

Fluency

Fluency Communications Ltd. is a new business ISP, with a focus on Telecoms. We own and operate our own IP network spanning Edinburgh and London, providing NGN technologies such as Fibre Ethernet, EFM and VPLS to businesses accross Scotland and the rest of the UK.

Factotum Technical

I run a well-established IT Solutions firm in Edinburgh calledFactotum Technical. We build, maintain and support business systems for SME's in Edinburgh and accross the central belt of Scotland.

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]

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.