Archive for August, 2007

Meetings and Mentions

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was down at OpenCoffee London again yestarday and met up with another great random bunch of interesting people. First off Tony from XCalibre was talking up their new scalable processing and storage platform, it is the same setup […]

31Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

Scoble Search

Scoble wrote late last week that Mahlo, Techmeme and Facebook is going to kick googles butt which is funnily just what I was saying back in April when I wrote the Death of Google Search

Here are few quotes of what I wrote back then,
The increase in popularity of social sites has spread into the search […]

27Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

Interview First Impressions

My first interview as a programmer was a telephone interview. Here is a short
transcript as I remember it (it was 17 years ago so it may not be accurate, as in storing PI in 3 bits accurate.)
(pleasantries have passed… and now I want to know what this job involves)
Me: So what kind of responsibilities will […]

22Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued

Too Old To Code?

The codist tells a story about being turned down for a programming job because of his age, he still believes that his talents are as sharp as they ever were but that the recruiter upon meeting him made a decision purely on age and not skill. I have certainly seen this happen enough and have […]

21Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 22 comments | Continued

Crunch Time

Firstly thanks to everyone who helped get the word out about fav.or.it the level of support and overall interest in the project has been amazing. We are planning on revealing a few more secrets about the project over on the fav.or.it

20Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

First Podcast

My first podcast went up on the Zend Developer Zone today, many thanks to Cal Evans for bugging me until I did it. The podcast covers the Zend Framework ACL (Access Control List) which I have made heavy use of in our current projects and I wanted to share how you can use it as […]

16Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued
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