As noted in a previous post, I recently picked up a Nokia Lumia 800 running Windows Phone 7. Before that I had a Samsung Galaxy S Android phone and an iPhone 3G before that. One major thing that has stuck out to me across these three platforms is that Apple and Microsoft have relinquished nothing [...]
Continue readingWell the festive season is over and after a much needed break I’m winding up ready to get back to work and tackle 2012. This is my attempt to reflect and summarise 2011 and some thoughts on looking towards 2012 and what it may entail. 2011 New company website At the beginning of 2011 we [...]
Continue readingPaul Boag is: … on a mission to convince the web design community that working with clients can be enjoyable, constructive and creates outstanding websites. One of his key messages is that the traditional approach for building a website is essentially “big bang” development. Every few years a website is overhauled and redeployed to great [...]
Continue readingLast week at the European Software Conference I attended a presentation by Chris Bray of IBM about… well IBM. Chris is a good presenter and gave a nice whistle stop tour of what IBM have been up to over the past 100 years including highs and lows. One thing that stood out to me though [...]
Continue readingLast weekend I attended the European Software Conference in London. Dave Collins (online marketing wizard) brought the event to my attention which I was previously completely unaware of. First impressions from the website were not great but Dave heartily recommended the event and it was extremely reasonably priced (€80 for a two day conference) so [...]
Continue readingAs I alluded to in the previous post, last week I attended an investment workshop organised by the Prince’s Trust. When I first heard about the event I wasn’t too interested as I hadn’t really given investment any prior thought so assumed the content of the day wouldn’t apply to me. However it had sparked [...]
Continue readingWay back in 2003, I started my business, a little web software agency for those not already aware. To help kick things off, I had support from the Prince’s Trust, attended many networking events and sought discussion from family, friends and anyone else I could remotely consider a business advisor. All of these interactions provided [...]
Continue readingCompeting on features is the road to feature bloat, poor usability and increased frustration for users, developers and project stakeholders. I’ve been taking an increased interest in the “tech startup” trend that has been occurring over the past few years and this concept is especially pertinent for anyone trying to make a success of a [...]
Continue readingAt Moov2 we have a lot of really exciting projects on the go and in the pipeline. We’re expanding our skill-sets and opening up more and more new opportunities. Coupled with one of our developers taking sabbatical we have a couple of new positions available and are looking for some hyper-enthusiastic devs to join our [...]
Continue readingI’ve been using Buzzword for a few years now, it’s still one of the best examples of an RIA that stands up against it’s costlier, heavier installable counterparts. Having your documents online accessible from anywhere is a great facility plus, there are some truly innovative UI aspects that make using it a great experience, or [...]
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