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Forget the Recession, Start a Business
I was interested to hear Lord Alan Sugar’s opinion when asked about the new season of The Apprentice. Talking about the show’s new prize (£250,000 investment rather than a job) he said: The reason for that change is because we looked at the climate at the moment and we wanted...
10 May 2011 · More →
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You Don’t Need a Brilliant Idea to Start a Startup
In this article Paul Graham states that “you don’t need a brilliant idea to start a startup”. I’ve been thinking about this recently and about how true it is. Yes ok if you have a stunningly original idea then you have a good reason to go forward with it. However...
24 March 2011 · More →
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The Nivo Slider is 1 Year Old
Today marks the 1 year anniversary of the now world renowned Nivo Slider. To celebrate here are some fun facts about the slider over the last year. 1,700,000+ visits 2,800,000+ pageviews 335,000+ downloads Average Downloads per Month: 24,000 Most visits in one day: 77,484 on 24th March 2010 Top 3...
20 March 2011 · More →
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BioThemes
For the past few months now I’ve been hinting that I’ve been working on something huge and exciting but couldn’t tell anyone what it was all about. Well today I can finally reveal what it is that’s been keeping me busy and excited and I’m sure you’re going to love...
2 February 2011 · More →
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I don’t think I’ll forget 2010
As a year draws to a close I always find it helpful to look back and take stock of what has happened over the year, and this year has been an especially mental year for me personally. It’s good to be thankful for what you have in your life and...
22 December 2010 · More →
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Developers, Design is Important
I think part of the problem with a lot of developers today is that they don’t spend enough time caring about design. Maybe they are scared of design, maybe they simply don’t want to learn how to do it or maybe they just think it’s not their job. I’ve touched...
12 October 2010 · More →
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Strict comparisons (===) in PHP
Have you ever seen a statement like if ($a === $b) and wondered what the whole triple equals thing is all about? Well it is actually quite simple. Assigning and comparing variables in PHP goes like this: $a = $b — Assign the value of $b to $a $a ==...
27 September 2010 · More →
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I’m Married
If you’ve maybe been wondering why I’ve been so quiet over the last few weeks and if you don’t follow me on twitter then you probably should know that I got married two weeks ago. I’ve been going out with Fiona now for 5 years and we had been engaged...
2 August 2010 · More →
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I’m Qualified
I received my exam results the other day. I’m now an officially qualified Software Engineer with a Bachelor of Science Honours degree from Strathclyde University. I received a Second Class Honours degree, upper division (which translates as a 2:1). It all sounds very official. And it is I suppose. After...
14 June 2010 · More →
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Developers, Sell Your Scripts
Before I even begin saying anything this article is not about encouraging developers to sell their scripts on sites like CodeCanyon (not that there is anything wrong with that). Rather I am going to take you through the process of things I did when creating the Nivo Slider, other than...
3 May 2010 · More →