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QCon day 3 – Does my bus look big in this

March 12, 2008

Jim Webber and Martin Fowler where fantastic. Humorous and poignant from beginning to end. You really had to be there, go to InfoQ and hope they filmed it.

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QCon day 2 – The Zen of Agile Management

March 11, 2008

I was not quite sure what to pick today, after almost going for Java Performance i opted for the Agile route. The session was not quite what i expected from the title or excerpt, but still very enjoyable. David Anderson came at agile almost from the standpoint of standard problem software projects. He looked at [...]

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Chirp Chirp – Social Network Aggregation

January 24, 2008

I like simple ideas and Chirp is one of them. We all have an ever growing list of social network sites and Chirp aims to bring these together in one place. The thing I like about the idea is it’s a screen saver. I think this is smarter than trying to be a web page [...]

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Sky Travel Site Launched

January 22, 2008

I am happy to announce that my team have just launched the new Sky Travel site . It is a complete re-development form the ground up and integrates with multiple providers to provide a breath of product offerings.  It has been built using open source Java technology (Tomcat, Mysql, Apache) and uses the Spring and [...]

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It’s all about Slack

January 12, 2008

Its the new year and I’ve not posted for  while, why? lack of slack, so after finishing the excellent book ‘Slack’ by Tom DeMarco,  I have decided to make myself and the people around me some.  The book is a must for anyone involved in running projects and it should be compulsory for anyone who [...]

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Project Launch – Mazda 6 pre-launch site

November 11, 2007

My team have just launched the new Mazda 6 pre-launch site.  Its written in .Net 2.0, using Episerver as a CMS to create an HTML site feeding into a Flash component.  It’s integrated into a Sieble Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.  It is rolling out across 21 countries and will be enchanced in the coming months [...]

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Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself

October 1, 2007

You know that saying that all PR is good PR? Not sure it always works. Never before have I seen such an abysmal start to an operating system release. For almost a year, people have been adopting Vista and becoming incensed by how poorly it operates. Not only does it cost too much, it requires [...]

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Incendiary Blue Open Source Java CMS

September 28, 2007

I have recently released content management system that i co-wrote. It’s a lightweight content management system that uses standard data and data structure formats to represent content structure and content. It is Java for platform independence, and utilizes tags or Java objects to incorporate content into HTML pages. It has some great feature for relational [...]

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