Those that are already in the computer business must have heard of Joel Spolsky. He writes a blog at www.joelonsoftware.com which is full of useful information and well, basically the guy is a legend in the computer field. I have recently purchased a copy of Aardvark’d on DVD, which is about a group of summer interns who over 12 weeks create a great product called CoPilot which allows you to control another persons computer without having to install any software, and without worrying about configuring firewalls, NAT or proxies. It is very impressive and shows you the kind of quality Internship that they have managed to create over at Fogcreek Software (which he is a partner of). It reminds me of my year’s placement at Intergral GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany. I had an absolute blast there and learned how software development should be done from Darren Pywell who is the company partner and CTO . He is a genuinely nice guy and an absolute genius when it comes to computers. He can read binary like most people read novels and that is no lie . I would recommend to any university student who wants to actually learn something, visit another country (unless you live in Germany of course ) and create something that will end up shipping to customers to contact Intergral and try to fix yourself up on a placement there. Be warned though, only good developers and quick learners should apply as they expect a lot from you, but in return for some excellent training of course. Read more »

Well I have finally gone and installed WordPress, and what a piece of software it is. I take my hat off to the team of developers who have created such a great product!

Well, what am I going to be writing about on here? Well as you may or may not know, I gave my notice in for my old job a few months ago to go out and start my own company with my friend John Sim, who just also happens to be a GUI genius. We will soon start to begin work on a new software product which will greatly help the media/print industry (and pretty much most other types of business as well) to streamline their digital asset creation and process management solutions. Read more »