Archive for April, 2008

24/100 Does a Big Brand Need You

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Somewhere in the shady world of sales and marketing and the cheery world of consumers is a role which transcends the paycheck: the evangelist These are individuals who become fans of your product to the point that they will devote increasing amounts of time to the promotion of that product. Sometimes, ...

V.C. Seminars in NISP

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Dear Colleague You are invited to attend a Frameworks Entrepreneur workshop to be held at Northern Ireland Science Park, with a presentation on: “The Venture Capital Process” By Peter Stafford of A&L Goodbody Programme Overview: Raising money in today's environment is no easy task -- but it can be done if you focus on the ...

Wordpress two dot five

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Upgrade seems to have gone okay...

Nothing is harder on your laurels….

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

John Gruber writes: "Borrowing ideas is fair game, but copying an entire app is wrong. And it’s creepy, in a Microsoft-of-the-’90s way, when it’s a $150 billion company cloning an app from a 10-person company." This is the #1 demotivator for me when it comes to software development. It's an unreasonable fear ...

Wordpress 2.5 Categories

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Dear Wordpress people, Please move the categories back to beside the entry text and not below. And hire some UI people. Or something.

Company Stupidity

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

NotAnMBA writes: "The IT guy tells me that it’s necessary to “lock down” the network. He doesn’t want anyone using unauthorized services running on high ports. Of course, anyone can tell you that it’s trivial to circumvent this obstacle by tunneling to the unauthorized service over unblocked port 80 via a friendly ...

MacBook Air for the Traveller?

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Publicspace.net I took my MBA on holiday to Spain over the Easter break and it’s just awesome as a light travel companion. It worked flawlessly, was no hassle lugging around the airport, worked fine on the Hotel’s free wireless network and best of all: it fits into a normal size room safe. ...

Going to WP2.5

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Planned for this weekend. I don't think anyone will be affected but it's about time. I've been running it for nearly a week on Lategaming without incident. The Widgets situation in WP2.5 is a little fscked as themes often don't know whether to use their own widgets or what and you ...

Minted

Friday, April 4th, 2008

The Royal Mint has revealed the new designs for our nations coinage. As you can see in the image to the right, the Shield of the Royal Arms has been given a contemporary treatment and its whole has been cleverly split among all six denominations from the 1p to the ...

Microsoft extending XP to 2010

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Beleaguered software vendor Microsoft is adding a couple of years to their spurned child, Windows XP::'Michael Dix, head of Windows client product management, tells the story, "One thing we've heard loud and clear, from both our customers and our partners, is the desire for Windows on this new class of ...