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Make It Scale

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last week I was invited along to speak at the Make IT Scale conference. It covered a wide range of scaling issues mainly very technical. I come from a Games Industry background and I wanted to get across how [...]

3Dec2008 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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10 Reasons Why Fable 2 Sucks

This weekend a product got me back in to blogging, but for all the wrong reasons. I had been looking forward to playing Fable 2 and really getting back to my RPG routes, I had this amazing vision of the next generation of Oblivion. In fact for all the sales hype from Peter Molyneux you [...]

29Oct2008 | admin | 477 comments | Continued
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10 Reasons Why I hate Recruitment Agents

Given that I have finally recruited my new CTO and he started today I thought I would write up my thoughts on recruitment agencies. The guys in the office know immediately when one rings me up because my normal pleasant demeanor (honest) suddenly disappears and is replaced with that of the attitude of someone who [...]

1Jul2008 | Nick Halstead | 230 comments | Continued
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Zend Framework powers fav.or.it

Today we finally launched fav.or.it. For those who have not been following our exploits for long we have been developing using Zend Framework on PHP, in fact we started using it at around version 0.6 and have worked through the problems as it has grown and evolved.
We have had our issues with performance as [...]

17Jun2008 | Nick Halstead | 54 comments | Continued
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Future Technical Post

We have decided to build a nice new blog system over at fav.or.it based upon wordpress (of course) that allows for all our employees to start blogging (some already have personal blogs) - and also to better categorize the content that we are writing. This means that I will start writing my technical content over [...]

26May2008 | Nick Halstead | 13 comments | Continued
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How to be a better programmer - Part 1

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 part is me feelings about ‘How to be open’ - this covers a range of things [...]

29Apr2008 | Nick Halstead | 20 comments | Continued
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