Derek Ekins
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Recent happenings
July 28, 2009 - 7:56 am
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I have been a bit quiet for sometime as things have been a little up in the air as to exactly what I am doing. Things have finally settled down now and am slowly forming a plan for the next couple of years.
For a number of reasons I have (temporarily) moved back down to London. [...]
Week fourteen review
June 17, 2009 - 9:22 am
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This week was somewhat plagued with bugs! Not completely a bad thing though as now they are all fixed. Very frustrating though and it is annoying when you can’t see much visible progress.
On Tuesday I had the chance to go to an apprenticeships conference with Alan Sugar. It was quite interesting and has given me [...]
Week twelve and thirteen review
June 7, 2009 - 8:34 pm
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Had a good few days off with my brother last week. We drove all over Northumberland looking at castles and checking out Hadrians Wall. It was a lot of fun. The weather was perfect and it was a great reminder of how beautiful England is in the summer. I really needed the break but it [...]
Week eleven review
May 24, 2009 - 9:59 pm
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Another busy week working on ZAVAM. It is now 95% ready to go into beta! Just a few niggly problems left with the hosting provider (Amazon EC2). Should have them sorted by the end of the week though and I am hoping to make the service available to pre registered users (you can register here [...]
Week ten review
May 18, 2009 - 5:10 pm
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Not much to update with this week, just been working away and getting a lot done. ZAVAM is starting to look very good. I have most of the features I need to launch with done. It is just a matter of fixing up a few things and making the experience a lot nicer. It will [...]
Week nine review
I sent off another proposal this week. It represents a much more scaled down version of the plan which I think is going to be much more realistic in the short term. It is also for a foundation I would really like to work with so here is hoping that they catch my vision.
I managed [...]
Answers to prayer
May 9, 2009 - 3:26 pm
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There have been some testing moments over the last few months. Moving to a new city by yourself is apparently not the easiest thing to do. It never really crossed my mind that it was a big deal but people are often amazed that I have done it alone.
One of the things I have been [...]
Week eight review
This week I have made some big strides in two of the products I have been working on. The schedule I have planned out is quite ambitious and I actually wasn’t sure if I was going to get everything done that I had planned this week – but I did, yay!
There are a couple of [...]
Week seven review
April 25, 2009 - 4:11 pm
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A pretty good week productivity wise. I have gotten a lot of work done on this new application in fact am slightly ahead of schedule. I have also been doing some planning for another application I am working on in partnership with a friend. Details will come on these soon.
Due to my change of financial [...]
Developing for the cloud
April 22, 2009 - 11:05 am
Tags: amazon, s3, sqs
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The project I have been working on will be living in the so called cloud. Eventually it will be hosted within Amazon EC2 but I am not quite at that point yet.
I have been using Amazon S3 and SQS however. I am developing in c# so went looking for some libraries that would make things [...]
