Archive for March, 2007

Wii sales up 40600% on Amazon??

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was just checking out Amazon’s “Movers & Shakers” feature under video games. And I found the following at the top.

Now I know the Wii is hard to come by here in the UK but surely this must be [...]

31Mar2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

Project management and probability curves

I have been watching an interview with Joel Spolsky this morning and one section really caught my attention which was a new feature within FogBugz. In the next major release 6.0 Joel stated that they will be giving development managers the ability to create probability curves to represent the % chance of completing your project [...]

30Mar2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

Backups and old colleagues

I have recently been looking for a secure way of backing up my development environment up onto external storage to reduce the risk of losing anything. I already have a RAID setup but you can never be too careful having lost data to catastrophic failure of hardware many times before.
After many searches I remembered a [...]

29Mar2007 | Nick Halstead | 5 comments | Continued

An introduction to programming by accident

I thought I would start my blog by explaining the title and give you some idea of my background which if I am lucky may give you reason to come back in some sort of future to see what else I have accidentally learnt.
I have been a programmer of one sort or another since being [...]

28Mar2007 | Nick Halstead | 4 comments | Continued