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working at home - 4 months on, what have I learned

So, it's been 4 months since I left the BBC (and wow, looks like the Homepage is about to go live-beta). It's been a bit of a learning curve/wall, especially some things

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    Nic Wise
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Mac gear for sale

Quick note for anyone looking for a Macbook, or RAM. 06/03/2010: Mac is gone, RAM still available. Macbook, 13 inch, White late-2006 model. 2ghz Core2Duo; 4GB RAM (3.5GB usable); 250GB

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    Nic Wise
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Tweetlightning is out - my first iPhone app

It's finally up in the store: Feel free to grab it off the iTunes store. And even more information here. Thanks to Shaun, I have an update to do already, but it's a

  • Nic Wise
    Nic Wise
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Matt Gemmell - how to compete with the ipad

Really enjoying reading this article from Matt Gemmell. I especially love this bit: Closed system. This is the very opposite of what your customers care about. The percentage of your customer base who

  • Nic Wise
    Nic Wise
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git-svn? or svn-git?

As some may know, I'm doing some work for a rocking email archiving company in Denmark, so obviously, my source repository isn't local - or even in this country. Luckily for me, it's

  • Nic Wise
    Nic Wise
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tilt-shift gen

nice little iPhone app.

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    Nic Wise
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'iPhone apps: or how Nic gets to the party REALLY late'

Yup, I've finally pulled finger and sat down to do some iPhone development, right in time for the iPad's release. No, that wasn't the reason - I just finally have a "spare

  • Nic Wise
    Nic Wise
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'Dollhouse: Is this how TV should be done?'

So, Dollhouse has finished for good. Last episode screened last night in the US (and has just finished coming down from iTunes). I've not watched the last 3 episodes yet - we've been

  • Nic Wise
    Nic Wise
2 min read

more on architects and titles

From the previous post, Alex raised some good points: I’ve always kept GHD and distinguished developer separate in my mind, I see GHD as a ruthless pragmatist, with a rich set of

  • Nic Wise
    Nic Wise
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architects. or why business cards need to be bigger (or have smaller text)

I've been thinking a bit - especially after talking to Dan North over a coffee last week - about titles in software development, and I'm fast coming to the conclusion that titles are

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    Nic Wise
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