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web engineer - chillfire: July 2011
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Web engineer - chillfire. Musings of a professional IT consultant, creativity without competition. Tuesday, July 05, 2011. Running a developer event – sponsors. They may not come through when you think they will and even if they say they will, others though will come out of the wood work. But they will never find you first. But don’t let that put you off! The email that went out was heavily focused on what I was trying to do, not on how much cash I needed, actually for most first contact emails I never a...
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web engineer - chillfire: April 2013
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Web engineer - chillfire. Musings of a professional IT consultant, creativity without competition. Thursday, April 18, 2013. Speed reading for business - great course from mylearningworx. As part of the quality testing team at www.mylearningworx.com. I get to test some of the courses that are created by the community, the goods ones go live the not so good ones get help and advice form our worxsmith team to make them good. The one that I just finished testing is "Speed reading for business". If you need ...
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web engineer - chillfire: August 2012
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Web engineer - chillfire. Musings of a professional IT consultant, creativity without competition. Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Is windows 8 that bad - I dont think so. This is a reposnse to www.pcgamesn.com/article/why-i-m-uninstalling-windows-8. I started writing it as a comment to the looooong 'uninstalling windows 8' post, but it got a bit out of hand so here it is instead;. They are built by humans, I mean we aren't perfect and creating an OS that keeps every single user happy is impossible. Using wi...
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web engineer - chillfire: October 2011
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Web engineer - chillfire. Musings of a professional IT consultant, creativity without competition. Friday, October 28, 2011. Silverlight 4– MVVM – binding and dependency property injection. I am not going to try and explain MVVM in depth, there are loads of post about what it is and how it works In essence its splitting the code and UI into separate (and testable) layers within your application while trying to keep the business logic out of the UI. I am building a Silverlight control to manage/create new...
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web engineer - chillfire: December 2013
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Web engineer - chillfire. Musings of a professional IT consultant, creativity without competition. Thursday, December 12, 2013. 7 years and counting. In a moment of reflection, I have decided to look back on the last 7 years of being self-employed and take a look into the future. Why take on running your own business? The reasons why any of is take on the task of running our own business (or as people like to say 'being your own boss') is pretty wide. For me its not;. The freedom of working for myself.
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web engineer - chillfire: August 2013
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Web engineer - chillfire. Musings of a professional IT consultant, creativity without competition. Friday, August 09, 2013. Still no internet in 17% of UK homes - my solution. Almost a fifth of UK homes are still not online, new figures show, but mobile browsing continues to grow quickly. Http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology.PublicRSS20-sa. Most UK mobile networks run a faster 3g (let alone 4G) connection that the majority of copper based broadband customers. Friday, August 09, 2013. Links to this post.
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web engineer - chillfire: June 2011
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Web engineer - chillfire. Musings of a professional IT consultant, creativity without competition. Wednesday, June 22, 2011. These are not the mind waves you are looking for. A few weeks ago I was watching the ‘Best if the Gadget Show’ and one of the task they showed was how they controlled a gantry crane with nothing but the power of their minds. This was in my mind something straight out of the Sci-Fi shows I watched (and still do) as a kid. Out of the box. I did need a single AAA battery though. When ...
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web engineer - chillfire: April 2012
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Web engineer - chillfire. Musings of a professional IT consultant, creativity without competition. Thursday, April 19, 2012. Dev4good, Mozilla Foundation and a lesson learnt. I have learnt a lot while running the dev4good. Events (registration is open for 2012 – http:/ dev4good.eventbrite.com. And sometimes you learn something that makes you stop and think. Last week I was left speechless, which doesn’t happen very often, I was up in London meeting Desigan Chinniah (@. I have been to a number of tech off...
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web engineer - chillfire: November 2012
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Web engineer - chillfire. Musings of a professional IT consultant, creativity without competition. Wednesday, November 28, 2012. On 24th November 2012, possibly the most productive single hack event started. I may be biased. This time around we decided to bypass the charities altogether, instead we invited developers designers, marketers, ideas people and anyone who was interested to join us at Google Campus for the weekend. In the end we had 40 people, a few familiar faces, a few crazy ideas and a l...
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web engineer - chillfire: June 2013
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Web engineer - chillfire. Musings of a professional IT consultant, creativity without competition. Friday, June 21, 2013. Kids vs Clients - who wins you decide. I spent the day with my 2 kids yesterday (4yrs and 2yrs) and had an awesome if not tiring day with them. What I realised after looking back on the day was that I think anyone ho wants to run their own business should start by managing young kids for a day, they make the best on the job training money can buy. He like to change the rules constantl...