The Master of Understatement
Yesterday I attended for the second year running the Annual Convention for the Institute of Directors at the Royal Albert Hall. Personally, I think it started badly if you compare it to last years speakers. But it started to turn round when Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of Ann Summers spoke. A take no prisoners kind [...]
A Couple of On-line Videos
Firstly, Jessica Livingston, author of Founders At Work goes to Google and talks about the book.
Secondly, Pirates of Silicon Valley, the movie, is now available via Google Videos.
Enjoy.
Colour Schemes
kuler is a neat little web site for creating, rating and selecting colour schemes for your own web sites. Very nice.
Adobe goes Online
Okay, okay. It may be old news to you, but it’s new news to me, but Adobe Photoshop is releasing an Online Edition. By online, I mean of the Software as a Service (SaaS) kind, ala apps online…
Recently, I’ve started playing around with images, and although the desktop version of Photoshop is the daddy, there are [...]
Are you an asshole?
I’ve just finished reading this book ‘The No Asshole Rule‘ by Bob Sutton of Stanford University which is all about building a civilised workplace and surviving one that isn’t. The book is a 160 pages of medium to large print that can be read within the space of a day. It was a light hearted read, that [...]
PHP: Dirty install…
Okay, I can see why I wasn’t attracted to php in the first place. Jeez…when you start reading about how to install it on IIS, for XP Pro, Service Pack 2 the fun begins. Not many clear postings on just how you should do this. Half saying you need to hack it together using the [...]
PHP : Another lanugage to learn…
Every year I commit myself to learning another language and deliver something into a live environment using it. This year I have no choice but to pick up php. Now this has been around for donkeys years and has never really appealed to me in the slightest. However, I am now stuck in the situation [...]
