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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 | Continued
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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
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Is 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 […]

16Jan2008 | Nick Halstead | 12 comments | Continued
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fav.or.it API - The future of comment distribution

I have just announced the new API for fav.or.it over on the fav.or.it blog. As most of my readers are very technical I thought I would give you all the heads up on it as some of you may be interested in making use of it.
Here is the quick summary.
The fav.or.it API is designed […]

7Jan2008 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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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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What 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 […]

31Dec2007 | Nick Halstead | 39 comments | Continued
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