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Jeff Atwood goes into some calculations about the cost of scaling up vs scaling out and makes an interesting point, it quickly becomes impractical if you're not using open source software. I think Jeff slightly missed the point though, it's not about open or closed source, it's that scaling out...

I really dropped the ball on the whole post a day for this month thing. It's been over a week and I haven't written anything. It's like all the other things you're meant to do, then time goes by and you don't and it gets to a point where addressing...

I Meant to post this yesterday and just plain forgot, so I'll try to get two out today to make up for it. I got some feed back on my post the other day about setting rates. It's an interesting topic to a lot of people. One of the questions...

Lloyds TSB just announced they're shutting down all C&G branches with loads of job losses. Though they said they were hoping to avoid compulsory redundancies with early retirement and by hiring less contractors. So they're not cutting jobs, except for contractors. Which is too bad for the contractors but brings...

[[posterous-content:gotFvvEkgktmmazxnIww]] Image via Wikipedia Came up with a good distraction tonight and thought briefly about being an iPhone developer. Was chatting with @Simon_Chapman (not sure I'd bother clicking there - nothing but tumble weed) about the various services out there and was trying to come up with a unique way...