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Books everybody should read
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Posted in Life, Looking Forward, Travel
ODesk and outsourcing
Back to it again, the portfolio needs a bit of a push so I am adding a few new sites into the mix this time in niche’s discovered with a new formula pulling from several new data sets. Ah the wonders of purchasable and scrapeable data online / via api – the formula was refined using the current cross section of my portfolio so I am quietly confident on its production viability. So I chose 5 niche’s and started the process – but this time (largely spurred on by four hour work week) I am outsourcing every possible task, starting with the content writing. I have done this in the past with varying success, when I first started I had some great writers at great prices from forums, but that was years ago and between spurts of sites I lost touch. When I went back to the same sources about a year ago the quality was poor for higher prices, still I got it done.
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Posted in Business, C#, Projects, Web Development
Denmark, true story
“Where should we go”
“Ukraine”
“Na…”
*Throws dart*
“Denmark, its on”
*books København/Aarhus*
That was a few weeks ago, 10 days in Denmark later I am home again, feeling strangely idyllic. Denmark took some money, a fair handful of braincells, but I gained so much in return. A fantastic country Denmark, full of friendly cool people and good experience. I have so many stories from such little time, but all I will say is that the Danish (and other nationality :)) people are awesome, thanks for having me and I shall be back ;).
Disclaimer: These photos represent a soba percentage of the holiday.
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Posted in Looking Back, Looking Forward, Photography, Travel
New Year, New Camera
What an epic camera. Reminds me how awesome photography is with SLR’s and how even with 35mm I loved it, the idea is to post as many photo’s as pos to go with posts from now on, to be seen how that goes. Anyhow check out the first day of messing about with it, all are straight shots, no after processing all that I have done is cropped them. lol at the mixed bag between seaside stereotypical and donnie-darko like abstracts.
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Posted in Photography, Photography
New blog design for a new year
Its a few weeks into 2011 and a redesign and new plan is in order. I took inspiration from a few fantastic blogs for this theme and make no claims at anything other than trying a fresher look!
I intend 2011 to be a much more blog-rich year, I am already brainstorming some posts for February that will go live perhaps from the Ukraine, should my travel plans come together. The whole blog will be taking a new slant as I move on to new projects; I will likely be blogging a lot more about writing (as I finish this novel), travel, self-employment and entrepreneurship (as I now maintain my own sole/soul living.) This does mean a move away from code specifics, but no doubt with the way my businesses are online based there will still be a good helping of web development and technology posts.
It looks as if the majority of my 2011 shall be in London, with perhaps a few escapes to the Ukraine, Spain and elsewhere. Hopefully this less nomadic period will allow me to secure a larger business, finish this book and get fitter.
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Posted in Looking Forward, Travel, WoodyLabs
From SQL Server 2008 r2 to SQL Compact Edition. Doing things the wrong way.
Program written using csharp and SQL Server 2008 r2? Great eh? … What about your users? …Doh. Anyway its good to re look at your data layer, so if this crops up and you need to switch to a more portable solution (Compact edition means anyone can use it on windows) then put in the time. Heres a few snippets of SQL changes that you will need to deal with in recreating your tables in SQL Compact Edition (moving from full blown SQL server auto scripting)
- Dont try to SET anything, skip them. ANSI_NULLs, ANSI_PADDING
- Replace CURRENT_TIMESTAMP with (getdate()) – easy to forget this but I always seem to use it as a default.
- Keep constraints on line
Of course if you wrote your tables from scratch in T-SQL it probably wont be a problem.
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Posted in Snippets, SQL Server, Transactional SQL
Small update for Reddit Wallpaper Grabber
Just a quick update for the reddit wallpaper grabber which some of you reported issues with. In fact it was more just that reddit was under heavy load and lazily I had no pretty error handling in there. So I quickly added a notification so as to clear up the times when reddit is inaccessible. You can download v0.2 here, but if reddit is down, reddit is down! Please do keep dropping me lines if you spot any more bugs.
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Forget Inertia – A new era.
There is by far enough written words about the freedom and positives of leaving ones established job, for better or for worse I think it is the right way forward for me, now. I have had a long list of things to post about, technology thoughts and projects completed; now thankfully I have the control of my time enough that I can post about them.
2010 Has been a good year for travel, from the sandy cocktail beach’s and fast paced mountain biking through lychee groves of Thailand across to the lake of Pokhara and the remote Bandipur in Nepal; sidestepping riots in both countries and a ridiculous ash cloud, through grace or luck. From central park and the Guggenheim to the Robert Moses beach and Long Island, New York was epic; and now in 48 hours or so on to Agadir, Marakesh, Casablanca and Fez, Morocco, its been a good year for travel.
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