Archive for January, 2008

Tweetmeme - building stuff fast in PHP

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I launched a little project today - tweetmeme it is written in PHP (of course!). What is it? It tracks the public timeline from twitter and picks up any links that get posted. It then follows each link to […]

28Jan2008 | Nick Halstead | 8 comments | Continued

I am a Dad!

We had our baby last Friday (18th) so am now a very proud father. Her name is Amelia and she is an expert in Java, the reason? my wife is a technical trainer and she has been listening to her teaching for the last 8 months so I expect her to be at a keyboard […]

22Jan2008 | Nick Halstead | 29 comments | Continued

Dell PowerEdge 2950 III Unboxing

We took delivery of a nice new server today. It is a DELL PowerEdge 2950 III, this is a small part of our overall server infrastructure that is going to be driving fav.or.it as it scales up. We have other servers arriving (soon) and I will do an unboxing for them as well and also […]

21Jan2008 | Nick Halstead | 7 comments | Continued

Is experience better than talent?

I have been thinking a lot about the difference between experience and talent lately. Part of this is because I am going through the recruitment process again and I am having to make decisions that fall soundly across the divide.
Of course people can be experienced and talented, I count myself as someone who does […]

16Jan2008 | Nick Halstead | 12 comments | Continued

fav.or.it API - The future of comment distribution

I have just announced the new API for fav.or.it over on the fav.or.it blog. As most of my readers are very technical I thought I would give you all the heads up on it as some of you may be interested in making use of it.
Here is the quick summary.
The fav.or.it API is designed […]

7Jan2008 | admin | 3 comments | Continued