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Rob Dudley (@robdudley) April 24, 2012
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The Cabin in the Woods
!!! Major spoiler alert! Do not read on if you haven’t seen and plan on seeing the movie !!!
I was pretty excited to see that Joss Whedon was returning to the big screen for the first 2005. My excitement was tempered by the subject of his latest film. I normally avoid teen horror films, not because I find hem particularly scary but mostly because I find them to be poorly written, poorly acted and generally derivative shite.
Deputized in the mix – 106
After the blissful, trance stylings of mix 105 (and the horrific squelching nasties of 104) this latest mix is pure house with a touch of latin for good measure.
From the upbeat opening track through a couple of hidden gems and a double from David Jones, this mix is perfect for the later night listen – enjoy!
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The Hunger Games
Book(s) & Movie Spoiler Alert! You have been warned …
Miniaturization
How small can you go?
I know it’s a natural trend in the IT world to make things smaller and smaller but a couple of recent real world observations have really brought home just how tiny some tech is geting.
The first is the pictured Intenso 8GB USB Key
I bought to stick the OSX Lion installer on when selling my old laptop. The thing is smaller than a penny, fully functional (speed wise it’s comparable to other drives) and only cost £5 shipped!
It’s not the only tiny storage device I’ve bought recently. I upgraded my smartphone to a 32GB Class 10 MicroSD card which fits 32,768MB of fast storage on a device the size of the nail on my little finger!
We’ve had the launch of the Raspberry Pi which puts a full ARM powered computer on a board that would fit in a cigarette packet and still have room for some cigarettes”
And then I read about the new Yubikey Nano which is a new OTP token generator from the folks at Yubico and is about the same size (if not smaller) as the USB key.
How much smaller can this stuff get? And what have you seen recently that’s made you think “Cor blimey that’s tiny!”?
Onwards and Upwards
For the past 4 years (near enough) I’ve had the privilege to work with a boutique web design and development firm here in Jersey.
And after 4 years it’s time to move on. Friday the 9th March is my last day at BlueBox Creative.
When I joined, back in March 2009, I was coming from a very different environment – I’d been working as a developer for a managed services provider and had done very little classic web dev during that time. I also knew nothing about ColdFusion (above and beyond the fact of its existence) and hadn’t worked in a local client facing environment for 5 years.
The BlueBox team were making already waves in Jersey! By the time I arrived they’d netted two CIM awards and had a range of impressive local clients. I had the honour of working with them to take the company through the next phase of its life!
During my time I had the opportunity to work on a range of projects and to work with the cutting edge in web technology. My job didn’t just mean a new set of work mates & clients but introduced me to a whole new community of very cool people by way of ColdFusion, CFML, and Railo.
My new role is just as exciting! I’ll be joining the Quidsin team to head up their systems development which will mean new challenges, different technologies and a new platform to take forward.
Yes, I’ll be heading back to PHP development for a while but the instant I can make a business case for CFML I will. And I hope my fellow CF devs won’t shun me just because of an outbreak of semicolons & braces.
It will be with sadness that I shut down my PC for the last time on the 9th but with a hint of pride in knowing that I’ve been a part of some of the best web projects undertaken in the island over the last few years.
And now it’s time to move – onwards and upwards.
