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20 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Thunderbirds Are Go!

A friend of mine will often text me on a lazy weekend evening to say “In front of the TV? Go the Channel 4!”. I would change the channel to find he’s directed me to a classic episode of “Police Cops 19″ or “When fat celebrities fall down – Exposed!”. And about 5 minutes later [...]

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20 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

A Package from Pakistan

An hour or two after posting the job (for developing my Facebook application) on Elance the bids started coming in. I got 7 proposals, all from the “India/Southern Asia” region. It was easy enough to spot the serious proposals, with good feedback, strong ratings and a good earnings history. It also quickly became apparent that [...]

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15 January 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

So as we resume our tale he is about to embark on the outsourcing leg of his journey, to find someone who is skilled in the very many ways that he is not….

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02 January 2009 ~ 6 Comments

A Real-Time-Micro-Social-Forum Application

This is part of a series of posts on the Journey of a Facebook Application.
I think that title bears repeating, I’m almost proud of it – A Real-Time-Micro-Social-Forum Application. That – expressed in the most buzzword filled description I could think of – is the application I’m going to build!
My InspirationI’ll be the first to [...]

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02 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

A Fresh Start

This is part of a series of posts on the Journey of a Facebook Application.
There has been a fair bit of progress so far on this Facebook application that I decided to make (and blog about). It has been a month since my last blog post on the application (which is waaay too long) but [...]

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