Archive for December, 2007

Year 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I thought I would do a quick roundup of blog content that I have written over the last 10 months. In that time I have written 160 posts and had over 1000 comments. So firstly a BIG thanks to […]

31Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

What Motivated programmers?

I will start with a question, if you have a spare £400 in your development budget do you A) Reward your star programmer with a £400 bonus or B) Buy him/her a 24 Inch 1920×1200 LCD screen?
I previously asked this question and since then all my programmers now have either 24 inch screens or two […]

31Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 39 comments | Continued

Scoble Interview + Geek Dinner

I was lucky enough to be invited along to a Geek Dinner which had some of the who’s who of the web 2.0/blogosphere including Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, Steve Clayton, Hugh MacLeod, David Sifry, Ian Forrester and probably lots more that I didn’t get a chance to talk with.
I turned up to the event […]

24Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

Programming Tips #9 “debug_backtrace”

Next up on my programming tips series we have another guest post. This one is written by Larry Garfield who blogs over at garfieldtech.
Despite the proliferation of debugging tools, especially real-time debuggers, “debugging by print statement” remains the most common form of debugging in most programming languages. It’s especially important when you run into […]

19Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 8 comments | Continued

Amazon SimpleDB - A different perspective

Amazon has launched SimpleDB and the BlogoSphere has already gone gaga over it (e.g. here, here, here and here) and a few of them should know better or in fact looked at it more closely before foaming at the mouth.
I was looking at the syntax for queries and one thing stuck out for me. This […]

16Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 8 comments | Continued

Programming Tips #8 “Non Coding”

Next up on my programming tips series we have another guest post. This one is written by Dordea Cosmin.
There are a lot of things that can make you a better programmer, but unless you are a freelancer , coding skills are not enough to succeed in a company. Probably you already saw a lot of […]

10Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 12 comments | Continued
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