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My week on the Sunderland Software City Blog

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

During the first week of September I was asked to act as the 'blogger in residence' at Sunderland Software City. This involved a commitment to write a blog post every day for a week on the 'trials and tribulations' of running a small business in the software sector. Sunderland Software City is ...

Spare a thought for David and Jane Alexander

Monday, May 11th, 2009

These are challenging times. While the financial system is imploding and company failures are rising to record levels many people are struggling to stay afloat. In these times spare a thought for David and Jane Alexander, the unfortunate directors of Crome Internet Limited. Crome Internet employed 8 staff in the Kendal ...

Anybody for lunch???

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I have been talking to several people (Alex Kavanagh, Codeworks Connect, members of the AWS user group and the Newcastle Open Source Network) over the past few weeks about trying to build some awareness of Linux, open source software and my favorite topic, cloud computing. We have been playing with a ...