Archive for Nick Halstead
I am a Dad!
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 […]
22Jan2008 | Nick Halstead | 29 comments | ContinuedDell 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 | ContinuedIs 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 […]
Year 2007
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 all my readers who spend time to read my dribble and to always give me great […]
31Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | ContinuedWhat 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 […]
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 […]
Very helpful, Many thanks! 
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frameworks have nothing to do with being "open". It comes down to saving time. Frameworks are what we ...
very good article nick. looking forward to part 2. i'm interested in the answer to the question from ryu :) 
Good article. What you think about Zend certification? Can it help for PHP develpers to improve programming? 
Great you're blogging again! I am just like you also a manager + programmer. I am leading a team of ...