Friday 30th of July 2010

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US TV – Season Premier Air Dates 2010

It’s pretty much over for most most of the shows from 2009 Season. Here is what to expect in 2010

Heroes Season 4 returns on 4th January 2010
Smallville Season 9 continues on 22nd January 2010
Burn Notice Season 3 returns on 28th January 2010
Lost Season 6 air date is 2nd Feb 2010
Flashfoward Season 1 continues on 5th March 2010
Dexter Season [...]

Recommendations, Endorsements, Referees – Do they help when looking for a job?

Having recently written a LinkedIn endorsement request for my colleague Nic Bell, I wondered whether they were actually useful when looking for a new role. I am quite active on LinkedIn myself and often notice many people recommending their colleagues/friends/family, sometimes very generous and some very brief and usually the favour is returned.
How important do [...]

20 Things Programmers Say When Something is not Working

20. That’s weird….
19. It’s never done that before.
18. It worked yesterday.
17. How is that possible?
16. It must be a hardware problem.
15. What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?
14. There is something funky in your data. OR It’s a data problem, not a program problem.
13. I haven’t touched that module in weeks!
12. [...]

Twittering

I joined Twitter a little while ago but only recently got into it, it’s actually a really good way of knowing what your friends and generally anyone you’re interested in is up to.
It’s a little bit similar to Facebook’s status updates, but its only that – You update your status and those that are ‘following’ [...]

@Media 2008

I was at the @Media conference on the 29th and 30th May (Thurs and Fri), getting some training – a web design and development conference. The focus is pretty much on user experience and front-end technology. Anyway, here’s a little run-down of the event. For anyone that is interested, links are provided to presentations where [...]