Archive for April, 2007

Deciding the makeup of Technology for Africa; keynote speaker in the bag

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

This has been an interesting week regards getting keynote speakers for the conference.
I’ve had one well known person, with a massive following, come back to me and say that he’d love to speak at the conference; another individual is going to be too expensive (I mean really, really too expensive - we’re not […]

Web, Web 2.0, Technology, Open Source, Web Standards, Technology for Africa, Conferences, Seagull | 2 comments

PHP and Web 2.0 Developer required in Putney Bridge, London

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Update: this post has been moved to the “Work with us” page…
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We’re growing faster than I can keep track of, so I’m looking for a senior php person to join our team of ninjas.
Details below:
A growing web applications company based in Putney Bridge, London, specialising in Web 2.0 work in the LAMP stack, […]

Web, Web 2.0, Business, Technology, Software, Development, Code, Open Source, Products, Chronos, php, Projects, Team, Seagull, Doris, Jobs | 4 comments

Basecode 2 Firefox extension for Basecamp

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

_ Basecode 2 Firefox extension for Basecamp
If you use Basecamp, it’s worth checking out…
Hat tip to Ido

Web, Technology, Software, Projects | No comments

Most popular tags on Flirtnik today

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

london

needsmoretags

islington

music

south_london

internet

soho

hackney

blogger

creative

needsmorepics

south_west_london

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north_london

lambeth

tag_me

web

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west_london

surrey

richmond

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east_london

clapham

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books

media

needstags

tooting

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travel

web2_0

gigs

Web, Web 2.0, Development, Projects | No comments

Andrew blows his knee…

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Just when you thought it was safe to return from holiday to resume your Ultimate Frisbee career, you go and blow your knee in 2 places and spend 4 hours at A&E… At least you don’t knead your knees to use Trac and Basecamp eh Drew?

General, Fun, Team | 1 comment

Real developers drink real coffee

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Quote from client today, after “Wow, this coffee is making me fly!”.
“So next time I’ll just go to Starbucks and order the girls coffee!“…
;-)

General, Business, Fun | No comments

Developing a CMS solution on Mediatemple with the Seagull PHP Framework, including Google Maps

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Having just completed the Atalink site, I would like to highlight some of my experiences, frustrations and lessons which I have learnt over the past few months.
Background
I developed the site using the Seagull php framework, using the publisher module (which has recently been superseded by the CMS module).
The publisher module requires a bit […]

General, Code, Open Source, php, Projects, Seagull, Portfolio | 1 comment

What a typical day looks like for me

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

I reckon that some people think I spend the day online, at my machine, waiting for stuff to do to come into my Inbox - at least my family does! I’ve always tried to be as responsive as possible with clients, and always will, totally, but as a business grows, so do the amount […]

Business, Projects, Team | No comments

The naked CEO

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Whilst I’m not touting myself as anything I’m not, the above title is a heads up to Luke who introduced me to the idea in a meeting today. I’ve just written a Web 2.0 report for him, and it looks like we may become a supplier / partner of sorts, to StepStone.
Anyways, the idea […]

General, Web, Web 2.0, Business, Technology, Blogging, Projects, Team | No comments

The joy of the client grin…

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Yesterday (Thursday) we did a client demo of a web application we’ve developed using Seagull, where we’d imported and consolidated +- 30k customer contact details and associated records, and made it available to their whole team as a “web page”…
Suffice it to say, the team worked really hard on it, and it was really, really […]

Web, Web 2.0, Business, Technology, Development, Code, Open Source, php, Projects, Seagull | No comments

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