Archive for June 2007

Thoughts on hiring => writing a better resume part i…

We’re looking for a couple of developers and I’ve been going through a number of resumes. Unfortunately, its a frustrating process as most of the resumes are poorly structured and written really badly.
I want to offer some advice on writing your resume, which is based on my experience both as a contractor looking for work [...]

Geek is good

Bill said it, so it must be true.

A rewarding experience

At the Creative HQ graduation, I was presented with Creative HQ Community award by my friend and fellow entrepreneur Rod Drury. The award was in recognition of my contribution of Wellington entrepreneurial community and development of the Summer of Code programme.
I want to say thanks for the award on behalf of myself and rest of [...]

How to survive getting Digg'd…

Here is a really interesting post about how Andre Gunter survived 100,000 instant visitors on a small budget.
His site is hosted on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with 256MB guaranteed RAM and 1GB burstable RAM. Its not designed to scale ! Andre outlines some of the tips and tools that he used to survive 100k [...]

iTunes now 3rd biggest music retailer in US

iTunes became the 3rd biggest music retailer in US behind Walmart and Best-buy. (It over took Amazon in January) Wow!
I wonder if anyone has any figures for NZ iTune sales. We now buy our music via iTunes, our CD purchases have all but dried up.
This re-iterates the acceptance of digital content as a medium and [...]