All Posts Tagged With: "Programming"

10 Reasons Why I hate Recruitment Agents

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

1Jul2008 | Nick Halstead | 75 comments | Continued

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 | 10 comments | Continued

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 | 14 comments | Continued

Tweetmeme - building stuff fast in PHP

I launched a little project today - tweetmeme it is written in PHP (of course!). What is it? It tracks the public timeline from twitter and picks up any links that get posted. It then follows each link to find final destination and then categorizes the content into blogs / video / images / audio.
This [...]

28Jan2008 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued