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Startup Camp

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 […]

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

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

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 | Continued
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