I love this quote from Steven Kessel who is Amazon’s “Senior Vice President of Digital Media” about non-US availablility of the Kindle (which I am almost entirely disinterested in): “We have lots of inbound requests from customers around the world. “We have no announcements for them today, but we continue to get those requests.” Brilliant. [...]
Category Archives: Business
On developer office space
January 2, 2009 – 3:42 pm
Surely most people have seen the somewhat hyped pics from that Google office in Zurich. Well slides, cable cars and baths full foam cubes are all well and good but I think Joel Spolsky does things better over at Fog Creek. There, the cash is spent (rather than Google-splurged) on private offices for programmers, the [...]
Nick Clegg visits our offices
December 4, 2008 – 2:26 pm
For those that don’t know who Nick Clegg is, he’s the one on the right. Also he happens to be the leader of the Lib Dems. Dave dressed up especially for the visit….
Working from home
October 21, 2008 – 6:03 pm
A List Apart asked their readers for tips about working from home and now they’ve published a few. Working from home in ‘sunny’ Cornwall has been going pretty well for me so far. We all make the effort to stay in touch through the day, mainly via a group IM chat we have running on [...]
Pack half of what you think you need…
October 6, 2008 – 4:57 pm
A great post from 37 Signals about minimising the features of your new web application. I particularly like the “you can pick up whatever you didn’t include when you get there” line. http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1268-pack-half-of-what-you-think-you-need
White October are hiring
September 23, 2008 – 2:22 pm
We’re looking for a new Development Team Leader to, er, lead our development team and get us whipped into shape with Agile methods. You’ll need to be very good (because we all are) so if you think you have what it takes, check out the details on our jobs page.
Google “Chrome” – now they have a Browser…
September 2, 2008 – 12:03 pm
After years of unfounded speculation, it appears that Google is actually getting into the web browser market. Later today they plan to release a Beta version (it’s always a Beta with Google) of “Chrome“. In a rather cute move, they have also published a cartoon explaining what it’s all about. Aside from the standard ‘Faster!’, [...]
HitMeLater.com : snooze for your email
August 14, 2008 – 10:23 am
This is a even simpler version of I want Sandy that Mary posted about a few weeks ago, HitMeLater.com means you can send that email you know you’ve got to respond to, but haven’t got time to right now, away again to come back on your chosen day / time. It’s free and you don’t [...]