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Service-oriented vegetables

November 3rd, 2007

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Being a mere lightweight in the world of development, I don’t read as deeply into application methodologies as some. However, I’ve been paying a lot of attention to service-oriented architecture recently: where I’ve used it in the past, where I’ll use it in the future.
It struck me that our staff restaurant at work is a […]


iSmug

March 7th, 2007

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Say cheese!, originally uploaded by minor9th.
This week, I’ll mostly be beaming and being cretinous with my newest gadget - a slightly shiny MacBook. Primarily I took the plunge so that I’d have a machine to use on the move ahead of an upcoming work/play break in California (more on that later), but I also caved […]


No Funciona

November 9th, 2006

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Whilst faithfully fulfilling my geek-boy duty to download the beta of Vista (bloaty, jerky, blurry - my computer scored a lowly 2 out of 5 on performance), I accidentally signed up to a bloody Microsoft newsletter which has since gone unread for months and months.
So, armed with a comforting mug of tea, I decide to […]


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