Dublin Web Summit 2011 Day 1

Last Thursday and Friday I attended the Dublin Web Summit in the RDS Dublin. There was a great line-up with some of the top luminaries of the tech world descending on Dublin for the event. Here’s a quick round-up of the sessions I atteneded. I spent most of my first day in the Social Media/Marketing [...]

The future of the internet

Last week, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Mary Meeker of kpcb, one of techs most important investment companies, presented their view of the future of the web. As an investment company whose portfolio includes the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Spotify and Zynga just to name a few, they have to know where the web [...]

Adventures with eircom

All I wanted was 8MB broadband. It all started on the 22nd of September. I was looking to change my broadband provider from clearwire. I was holding out for upc simply because I think it is criminal that we still have to pay line rental just to get broadband. At first I thought it was [...]

Can’t get to work? You should be in the cloud.

With all the snow around at the moment, roads in Ireland are treacherous. Now the government has told us that there are only 2 days worth of grit available. Going to work is rapidly becoming an extreme sport. Imagine though, if you didn’t have to leave your house. Imagine if all your work was available [...]

New Year Resolution, something newsworthy

Well it’s January again so I’m going to start a personal project. The project I have in mind is really ambitious so I don’t want to go into details but it will be built in Django and hosted on Google App Engine. The reasons for using these technologies are many-fold. I really want to learn Django and [...]