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Productivity through sound and timing
Don’t be slack, take hold of those ‘between interruption’ moments and expand them to become effective periods in the day. Multiply this a few times and before you know it you’re on the road to ultimate productivity! I wish this were completely true, but read on and i will explain the simple repeatable steps that I’ve…
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How to Publish to the Amazon Kindle & IBooks
The key things you need to know and do to publish to the Amazon Kindle and IBooks.
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How to Interview a Developer
First of all, the #1 criteria for getting hired: Smart, and Gets Things Done. Process Joel Spolsky is a highly regarded software engineer and he details how best to interview development candidates, this is an amended and augmented version of that process. see The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing Introduction Question about recent project candidate worked…
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A story about a technical architect – Pimp my architecture
A great architect will: be a coach be an expert – have instinct be an influencer have the ability to understand what’s in place and tell stories about it have empathy to understand what is true for others not just self have humility and humor have technological and social curiosity Prologue An architect often turns…
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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
If your going to spend 15 minutes watching a video, make sure it’s this one.
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SYZYGY RECEIVES EPISERVER AWARD FOR BEST PARTNER UK 2008
I’m very proud as syzygy was awarded the EPiServer Award for Best Partner UK 2008.This prestigious accolade adds to our already expert status in Content Management Systems having created sites for Setanta, Wyeth and Mazda and we are working on a new site for an exceptionally high profile luxe brand. EPiServer is a leading Content…
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Pecha Kucha
The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations concise, the interest level up and to have many presenters sharing their ideas within the course of one night. Therefore the 20×20 Pecha Kucha format was created: each presenter is allowed a slide-show of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. This results in a total…
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Mazda 5 site launch
My Team, recently launched a site to show off the new Mazda5 . It’s built on the EPiServer platform and written in .Net 3.5 with a flash,HTML interface (with some nice simple javascript). I like this site, as it has great integration between CMS and flash. The editors edit in the HTML version and it…
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QCon – How good was QCon 2008?
In short fantastic. I’ve attended many larger conferences and I found the smaller size more enabling for communication, both with the speakers and conference attendees. I attended tutorials on Agile management and DSL’s (Domain Specific Languages) and followed tracks on cloud computing, effective design and architectures. Each of these had a great set of speakers…
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QCon day 3 – Does my bus look big in this
Jim Webber and Martin Fowler where fantastic. Humorous and poignant from beginning to end. You really had to be there, go to InfoQ and hope they filmed it.