Archive for the ‘Startup’ Category
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The BBC writes about the skills shortage in the Games Industry:
The games industry says British universities are failing to equip graduates with the skills it needs. The warning comes from the industry campaign group "Games Up?", which says games developers in Britain are facing a serious skills shortage. The lobby ...
Posted in Commentary, Games, Startup | 7 Comments »
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Staying Connected is Michael Connick's blog. As Mike Cane puts it:For all iPhone users, I heartily recommend Michael Connick’s Staying Connected blog. He has an uncanny knack of finding sites that have been optimized for the iPhone. I learn something new with each of his posts.
I've held back on getting ...
Posted in Commentary, Startup, iPhone | 6 Comments »
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
DHH writes that it doesn't have to be all or nothing with a startup:
Startup mythology demands that to create something great, you need superhuman sacrifices. You need to work for no pay, you need to put in 120 hours/week, you need to preferably sleep under the desk and live off ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
I don't believe I ever linked this before...
Wil Shipley spoke to some students in 2005 and told them, in no uncertain terms, why it was better to be an independent Mac developer than it was to be virtually anything else (an independent Windows developer or any iteration of Working For ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
BarcampBelfast 2008 is planned for Saturday 21st June, 9am - 5pm. Last year I had other commitments and couldn't make it but I intend to turn up this year. Mac-Sys did sponsor it last year and will be doing so again. I think we need more of these events.
There's already ...
Posted in BarCamp, Commentary, Social, Startup, infurious | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Andy recently posted that his efforts to build Co-Working Belfast have been bearing fruit as he gets QUB and Belfast City Council on board. For my part, I've pledged that Mac-Sys will buy a desk every month and put some loaner kit down there as well to foster mobile ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Commentary, Social, Startup, Wireless | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Man, I have a bee in my bonnet about this.
There is nothing I'd rather do than give up this day job with $BIG_COMPANY and survive on my writing while I whiled away the days trying to learn to code to maybe build an app that I want. Apparently (according to ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Steve (The Biscuit) provided this link to The Daily WTF:
"If you’ve worked at enough companies in the IT industry, you’ve probably noticed that the most talented software developers tend to not stick around at one place for too long. The least talented folks, on the other hand, entrench themselves deep ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The title for this blog post derives from the autre-title for "The Hobbit" which was "There and Back Again". It details an arduous journey, full of frustration and friction, in order to have an adventure and then return home.
As the months pass in $BIG_COMPANY, it becomes clearer to me what ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Do Something Now, Social, Startup | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The Co-Working Belfast guys (David Rice and Andy McMillan) are really hoping that some of you will pledge a desk in the co-working building they have planned for Belfast.
I've already pledged a desk (that I'll be unlikely to use but will pay for anyway) and Mac-Sys is pledging a couple ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Do Something Now, Startup | 2 Comments »