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What de-motivates programmers?

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I wrote ‘What motivates programmers‘ several months ago and at the time it caused quite a stir. The basic idea was that programmers are not motivated by the same things as everyone else, they are a complex bunch and [...]

21Oct2007 | Nick Halstead | 27 comments | Continued

Future of Feeds

One of the hardest parts of building fav.or.it has been compatibility issues with all the different feed formats. RSS in particular has been used and abused on a grand scale and it really opened my eyes when we started building our aggregator. We use Zend Framework so although we looked around at a lot of [...]

15Oct2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

Belated FOWA Report

Since last week and FOWA my feet have hardly touched the floor, with the TechCrunch article giving us stupid amounts of traffic and then top spot on del.icio.us and a few other big sites it all went a bit mental. So this is my rather belated FOWA and Mashup Demo report.
Mashup Demo
On the Tuesday [...]

12Oct2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

fav.or.it Feature and Coverage

TechCrunch did an exclusive on fav.or.it yesterday. The main (and long) article is on TechCrunch UK plus a follow up (and shorter version) on the main TechCrunch site.
Alongside the TechCrunch coverage I also released the full details myself on the fav.or.it blog.

2Oct2007 | Nick Halstead | 7 comments | Continued

Zend Framework and fav.or.it

As we come near to launching fav.or.it I thought I would share my thoughts on building the project completely on Zend Framework. When we started 7 months ago the framework was on version 0.7 and some may have thought that basing our fledgling startup on a single unknown framework was slightly foolhardy. I will first [...]

1Oct2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued

Cybercar Human Problem

I was reading about a scheme to bring Cybercars into towns in England today. The idea is that they create dedicated paths for these little electric cars and put up Cybercar stops at which people can press a button and summon a car. They then tell it the destination (no idea how) and then the [...]

27Sep2007 | Nick Halstead | 4 comments | Continued
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