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Posts Tagged Daily Grind

Career Doubts

Over 11,000 people booked a night out on the lash last month with a system that I helped build. On the one hand: yes, my job is relevant to people’s everyday lives, the tools I build are useful.
On the other: could I not maybe have done something better with my time than […]


FOWA Post #1

You know, for all my cynicism about the usual web2.ohfuckoff bollocks, I’m at The Future of Web Apps for the next few days, and at this point, we’re two actual technical speakers in, and this is almost annoyingly fascinating. It’d be totally incomprehensible unless you make websites professionally at a pretty high level, but […]


Costings

One of the hardest tasks you encounter, working at an agency, is estimating how long a job will take. Over-estimate, and the client may balk at the cost. Under-estimate, and you can wind up out of pocket, forced into doing work rather too cheaply. But estimating is an art, not a science, […]


Got There In The End

It’s been about two years since I worked on it, but it looks like the Sanctuary Music Licensing website has finally gone live. Not likely to be of much interest to anyone that’s not looking to license music from Sanctuary’s catalogue, but it’s quite a nice little site, with a lot of nifty little […]


Post-Viral Infection

Well, it turns out that sometimes people do behave in a surprisingly decent and honourable manner. The CEO of BoggleIt.com has stepped in and paid my friend’s fee, after Moodia screwed them.


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