Most internet start-ups these days don’t manage their own hardware, unless they’ve got several hundred million dollars in funding and some fairly specialist needs. Pretty much everyone is working just fine on rented virtual machines, dedicated servers, and utility-pricing-model ‘cloud’ services. This doesn’t mean that they don’t need a sysadmin, or ‘ops’ team. However, just [...]
A project that wasn’t on my last from earlier in the week is the idea that was going to go on inappropriatetouching.com, which I registered back in September. The idea was derived from Paul Wilson‘s idea for a web site to resolve beer debts. You know how you post to Twitter going ‘Argh, Thing X [...]
I guess like many a geek, I’ve a laundry list of half-started or only-exists-in-my-head projects. Every year I decide I’m going to work on them more, and then I don’t really. (See: last year, the year before that, and the year before THAT.) So, in keeping with tradition I’m going to come up with another [...]
If you’ve met me, you might’ve noticed that I’m a massive fat cunt. This has been the case for all of my life, and I’m mostly happy with it. It keeps me warm in winter and if I fall overboard on a boat I’ll float. What I’m so not happy about is my level of [...]
After a pleasingly brief period of unemployment (where I mostly applied for jobs online and watched The West Wing), I’ve managed to land myself a job with PickLive, who are doing cool and interesting things with live event pool betting. They’ve even announced it on their blog, which is kinda cool. I’m going to be [...]
I got to spend the first five months of this year working for an awesome start-up – Source Rail. The vagaries of start-up life mean that I’ve had to move on, and now I’m looking for another awesome gig. Since several people have identified me at meet-ups as ‘that swearing guy off of Twitter’, I’ve [...]
The first of my ‘being productive at the weekend’ projects was something I’d actually started over the Christmas holidays – a pretty simple iOS app for checking domain name availability. The few apps I’d found all had the same restriction – they could only check .com/.net/.org domains. At a guess, they were just making a [...]
With a workable beta version of my first ever iPhone application sent out to the few brave souls who volunteered to test it, I thought I’d quickly go over my technology choices for this app. The core of the application is basically a mobile webapp, wrapped in PhoneGap to make it a native application. I [...]
So, pretty much every year I decide that I’m going to be more consistent about working on my side projects, updating this blog, and generally not spending my non-work time staring vacantly at either my TV or my computer. Then it descends into half-hearted hacking on toy projects that never really achieve anything, and I’m [...]
