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As you can tell I’ve been reading a lot from the 37signals blog this week. The title of this post comes from their post about Why Enterprise Software Sucks. A few years ago everything was about the Fortune 500. Even I, as a lowly network engineer, had some familiarity with it. We’d all heard most … Continue reading “The Fortune 5 000 000”
Fraser Speirs, developer of FlickrExport writes short piece on “your value” in a company. One of the most interesting things I find, when going between my various circles in Britain and America, is the differing values placed on the time and productivity of people. Google is, of course, famous for their provision of services at … Continue reading “Travel and the Value of “me””
In an earlier post I whined about Skype and Orange. Without fanfare, SkypeIn now seems to be working. It’s still a little slow connecting first time and sometimes requires a second connection to get the link up but that’s progress at least. Now. Orange. They didn’t get back to me. They sent me another bill … Continue reading “More on Skype and Orange”
A new blog designed to promote and collect information about collaborative workspaces in Ireland. Community driven and non-profit and hosting the first of my posts on the subject. Last year when I started all of this, I was sufficiently keen on the concept of Bedouin workspaces that I wrote up a business plan about it. … Continue reading “coworking.ie”
This month, I took some time out to launch What’s On Where For Kids in Northern Ireland, a web site aimed at parents who want to find out what’s going on in the province as well as get some sort of accurate user reviews of places. The guys working there have been reviewing venues and … Continue reading “What’s On Where 4 Kids launches…”
James asks Can the virtual office ever emulate a shared physical space? As a card carrying proponent of Bedouin workspaces, I’d have to say yes. James mentions Alan O’Rourke who seems to be missing the fag breaks and water cooler chats of the pre-Web 2.0 world. I’m not a smoker and the last thing I … Continue reading “Virtual Office BAAAAAD”
This isn’t about Bedouin, Blogging or Software Development. I’m angry. This is regard to a complaint raised against the North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust regarding the treatment of one of their patients, a young adult with special needs. This young man is under the total care of the Trust as he … Continue reading “Trust”
The Mulley posted a link to a YouTube-hosted AmEx advert “Pong v Roddick”. Now, obviously I’m a sucker for this. I’m unlikely to ever get AmEx again having escaped from their vicelike grip four years ago. I’m certainly never walking down that road again. But I digress. The advert, for those who can’t be bothered … Continue reading “Find a new way to win…”
WWDC left us with some very exciting technology to look forward to. I’ve started learning ObjC again – with a sprinkling of Cocoa so maybe I can turn into a programmer. The additions to ObjC, such as garbage collection and a lot of script-to-framework libraries will make a difference to who is able to create … Continue reading “WWDC Afterthoughts”
Loads of things… New Server for SyncBridge (yay for EXIST, and boo for 123-reg and dedicatedNOW) Syncbridge.com is ready to go, but not live. We got the SSL certificate up and running on the new server. It’s ALMOST ready to go. So close I can taste it. We’ll have a formal announcement once we’re sure … Continue reading “What’s happening?”