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• A new kind of Fail Whale

  Posted: 16 May 2009 at 03:05 by nigeljames

  I was up for the go live of the Wolfram|Alpha site this morning and there is a new ‘Fail Whale‘ that I am sure everyone will be talking about soon.

• Brush up on those “Double Zero” skills

  Posted: 13 May 2009 at 02:38 by nigeljames

  I love recruiters. I really do. It really comes down to different skill sets for different roles. With over  a decade in this software game now I have learnt a few skills that makes my time salable to the highest bidder. Over time I have taken some skills off my cv as it generates false [...]

• SAP Inside Track London 2009

  Posted: 16 Mar 2009 at 16:23 by nigeljames

  Darren Hague and I had a odd idea last year. “Why not run an unconference for SAP developers and consultants in London.” We had both been to SAP Community Days and thought we could pull something off. So we hustled together a venue and a wiki page to handle the signups and sessions. It was a lot of fun. [...]

• Software and the Law

  Posted: 07 Jan 2009 at 16:26 by nigeljames

  If you check the sylabus on most it ComSci degrees, it is unlikely that you will find a course or even a hat tip towards anything legal. Even the course that I took which included subjects on Communication, Managment and a full year project had no content on anything legal. This is why my friend Thomas [...]

• Happy New Year

  Posted: 05 Jan 2009 at 13:12 by nigeljames

  Wishing my readers a Happy New Year. I trust that this year brings you all you dream of and plan for. Photo credit: Chanc

• It not everyday…

  Posted: 08 Dec 2008 at 15:00

  … you get on the front page of SDN So I did a hasty screen grab. Thanks to @welshcathy for letting me know!

• PHP Advent Calendar

  Posted: 08 Dec 2008 at 13:16

  Last year the guys at OmniTI, primarily Chris Shiflett kicked off a PHP Advent calendar and while I was looking for it last week I was disappointed to not find one. At least not where I found it last year. This year all your favourite PHP authors are back  at a shiny new domain with design assistanc

• Zend Framework 1.7 is out

  Posted: 19 Nov 2008 at 17:49

  I note, via a number of sources, that Zend Framework 1.7 is out. As we are close to going live on our project that is using ZF for the first time we will not be putting 1.7 into production just yet. The most interesting thing to me is the updated Dojo as we are finding those [...]

• No more “Fail Whale?”

  Posted: 18 Nov 2008 at 17:00

  Twitter was doing some maintenance today… I like the ice-cream but where is the broccoli ?

• Be part of the solution

  Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 21:33

  It really doesn’t take much to change the world and today as part of blog action day I am going to challenge you to do something that will help someone out of poverty and maintain it. Maybe you are already doing something to make poverty history. Fantastic - keep it up. If you are read

• Be part of the solution

  Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 20:33 by nigeljames

  It really doesn’t take much to change the world and today as part of blog action day I am going to challenge you to do something that will help someone out of poverty and maintain it. Maybe you are already doing something to make poverty history. Fantastic - keep it up. If you are reading this post [...]

• An SLA

  Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 00:09 by nigeljames

  I was mildly amused to see that open source analyst James Governor has put an SLA on his blogging activity. In retrospect it is not such a bad thing. So here goes mine: I will write at least one post a month on anything that mildly relates to SAP, PHP, Eclipse, Usability, Web Applications, HR, CRM,

• An SLA

  Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 00:09

  I was mildly amused to see that open source analyst James Governor has put an SLA on his blogging activity. In retrospect it is not such a bad thing. So here goes mine: I will write at least one post a month on anything that mildly relates to SAP, PHP, Eclipse, Usability, Web Applications, HR, CRM,

• An SLA

  Posted: 14 Oct 2008 at 23:09 by nigeljames

  I was mildly amused to see that open source analyst James Governor has put an SLA on his blogging activity. In retrospect it is not such a bad thing. So here goes mine: I will write at least one post a month on anything that mildly relates to SAP, PHP, Eclipse, Usability, Web Applications, HR, CRM, Cycling, [...]

• Cycling to work

  Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 14:00 by nigeljames

  Bicycle Belles, originally uploaded by www.alastairhumphreys.com. This week I have started to cycle to work again. My monthly train ticket had expired and at my clients office there is ample bike parking and showers. I had no excuse. So last Monday I got my bike out, packed my bag, planned a route

• Cycling to work

  Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 14:00

  Bicycle Belles, originally uploaded by www.alastairhumphreys.com. This week I have started to cycle to work again. My monthly train ticket had expired and at my clients office there is ample bike parking and showers. I had no excuse. So last Monday I got my bike out, packed my bag, planned a route

• Cycling to work

  Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 13:00 by nigeljames

  Bicycle Belles, originally uploaded by www.alastairhumphreys.com. This week I have started to cycle to work again. My monthly train ticket had expired and at my clients office there is ample bike parking and showers. I had no excuse. So last Monday I got my bike out, packed my bag, planned a route and went for it. Seeing it was [...]

• We have a winner

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 10:45

  I didn’t expect to take this long to announce the winner of the caption competition. Thanks to all those who took part. Congratulations to Johan who came up with the winner.  SFLIGHT is the be all and end all. What else would you need? I am sure that the SAP Airline Industry solution is bu

• We have a winner

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 10:45 by nigeljames

  I didn’t expect to take this long to announce the winner of the caption competition. Thanks to all those who took part. Congratulations to Johan who came up with the winner. SFLIGHT is the be all and end all. What else would you need? I am sure that the SAP Airline Industry solution is build o

• We have a winner

  Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 09:45 by nigeljames

  I didn’t expect to take this long to announce the winner of the caption competition. Thanks to all those who took part. Congratulations to Johan who came up with the winner.  SFLIGHT is the be all and end all. What else would you need? I am sure that the SAP Airline Industry solution is build on the [...]