Tag: Geekup

What we learnt from building a jobboard

2 October 2015

A few months ago we built a jobboard — pieline.net. It was mostly a programming challenge — we wanted to learn more about databases and Node.js, and we thought that this would be useful and straightforward. There used to be the Geekup Jobboard, run by Andrew Disley, free and for everyone (except recruiters). It was split up by functional […]

Geeks on an Island

9 January 2010

In a discussion on the Geekup mailing list about a particularly stupid bit of Government legislation, I came across this: Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: It would have been wiser to invest in a couple of islands and some yachts…. Caius Durling wrote: Any room on there for another (possible) expat? 🙂 Simon Ward wrote: If […]

What is the most useful thing you will do towards a future career when you're young?

18 May 2009

This XKCD cartoon strangely captures essence of most of my complaints with the way ICT and technical subjects are taught in schools. For me, it was a extensive number of weekends trying to make various different project work and multiple evenings getting to know the right people in the tech industry – thanks to the […]