Had an interesting week teaching a couple of teenagers to program. In fact it wasn’t a week but only four days in which to impart some knowledge and get them to complete a small project so that they felt they had achieved something. For this I decided that they should create a form and then save the details entered on the form to a database. This meant teaching some HTML, SQL and PHP – in four days to two youngsters that had no prior experience of coding.

So the programme went something like this:

Day One: What is the internet … Read the rest

I was looking for information on merging notes in Evernote when I came
across this great article:

http://lyndamk.com/2010/02/12/how-much-do-i-love-evernote-let-me-count-the-ways/… Read the rest

It is not often that I write about my work but occasionally something happens that I think is worth blogging about and this is one of those occasions.

The company that I work for, 2LS, are providers of recruitment software and, as I am sure you can imagine, this last year has been particularly tough for that sector as new jobs have been few and far between and recruitment agencies have been tightening their belts. Despite this challenging background 2LS has bucked the trend and grown over the last year. In fact we have tripled the number of customers … Read the rest

Interesting article in this months Wired magazine entitled “why do ebooks cost so much”? It’s a really good question and one I have asked previously. However, it seems that “the physical aspects of book production can account for as little as 15 percent of the cost of the title.”

Take a look and see what you think.… Read the rest