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How to be a better programmer - Part 1

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I thought I would re-start my blogging (apologies for the major lapse!) endeavors by covering how to become a better programmer. This will be split into a number of parts as there is a lot to cover! The first […]

29Apr2008 | Nick Halstead | 11 comments | Continued

Yahoo Tackles Semantic Web

TechCrunch released information today that Yahoo is about to join in the semantic web goodness game. I thought I would quickly write up something from a developers point of view what would come out the other end for users.
I have not got the full list of micro-formats being supported but lets go with the […]

13Mar2008 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

Startup Camp

I am sitting on the train in Paddington writing this, just about recovered from the previous night’s excesses after celebrating winning best startup at startup camp the day before. We were invited to attend startup camp by Sun Microsystems as we are involved in the startup essentials program and are bit of a poster child […]

10Mar2008 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Launched fav.or.it

It has been an epic struggle but finally we have launched fav.or.it, still in closed beta but it is live and people are using it as I type this post. We are probably two months later than originally planned but we have managed to squeeze in every feature we could think of and then some! […]

27Feb2008 | Nick Halstead | 52 comments | Continued

Moved Blog

When we got investment in fav.or.it we created a new company ‘favorit ltd’ that would own it, this left me with the problem that my blogging was being done under Assembleron, we already have a blog for fav.or.it so I decided I would separate out all my personal blogging to a new domain, so from […]

13Feb2008 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Tweetmeme - building stuff fast in PHP

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 find final destination and then categorizes the content into blogs / video / images / audio.
This […]

28Jan2008 | Nick Halstead | 8 comments | Continued
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