Monthly Archives: January 2009

More demand for PHP Developers?

Posted on January 13, 2009 by dale

It’s interesting that it appears there are more jobs for Freelance PHP developers in Cape Town than there are for Freelance C# developers. I’m surprised by this because I assumed (incorrectly it appears) that there would be more PHP developers … Continue reading →

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What happens when the framework vanishes?

Posted on January 13, 2009 by dale

This is a response/comment to Richard’s blog entry about 3 Things to Learn from LINQ to SQL How many times have you done work based on a particular technology only to have it vanish or be completely incompatible in the … Continue reading →

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Owl Says Woot?

Posted on January 13, 2009 by dale

So this is a shout out post to some friends of mine… Richard (a friend in the UK at the moment) left a post on this site with a link to a website… I was curious, clicked it and suddenly … Continue reading →

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Comic I stumbled across.

Posted on January 10, 2009 by dale

I stumbled across this comic and dowloaded it somewhere online, if anyone knows the original source let me know.

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Gliffy – A Visio replacement?

Posted on January 10, 2009 by dale

I’ve been playing with a website/tool called Gliffy which is sort of a web-based Visio. It’s actually rather cool the interface is rather snappy but thats most likely because it a Flash applet inside your browser.

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What Hyper Inflation Looks Like

Posted on January 10, 2009 by dale

            You know inflation has gone crazy when there isn’t enough space on a cheque to write out an amount that is equivalent to a few hundred US Dollars. Yes that is a cheque written … Continue reading →

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Robot’s taking over the world?

Posted on January 10, 2009 by dale

If you watch Oprah or spend anytime online then I’m sure you must’ve heard of the Roomba made by a company called iRobot. The’yre fancy little floor cleaning robots that you can buy and when they where first launched a … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs on managing through the Economic Downturn.

Posted on January 9, 2009 by dale

I found this quote on Fortune’s Magazine’s website through a mention on this blog. “We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way … Continue reading →

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Did you see it coming?

Posted on January 9, 2009 by dale

It’s interesting reading about all the people who are saying they saw the current economic crisis coming long before anyone else did. Anyone who says ‘They saw it coming’, I generally on principle don’t believe. Unless they were smart enough … Continue reading →

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Google Analytics – A few days in…

Posted on January 9, 2009 by dale

As I posted a few days ago, I’ve been playing with Google Analytics. Which is seriously cool and allows me to see where all my visitors come from, what they click on and how much time they’re spending on the … Continue reading →

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