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The Barn site is live! last month

Finally it's here For the last few weeks I've been pulling together the concept of 'The Barn'. Ostensibly it's a company blog, but to me it's a bit nicer than that. In drafting up the 'about' page I defined it as 'Headscapers not Headscape' and that's my hope. The intention is that …

Barcamp Bournemouth 4 last month

This time with added hackspace. Having made the trip twice before I was looking forward to Barcamp Bournemouth. It's probably my favourite small event. Partly because it's so close, partly because it's a great venue but mainly because there's always something interesting and new (at least new …

WP7 vs iPhone 3 months ago

Ok so if you follow me on twitter you may know that towards the end of last year I took part in 'Alphalabs'. Organised by onedotzero this was a competition aimed at encouraging developers and artists to work together on the Lumia 800 platform. While not taking part in the eventual …
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Cargowire has a new design 3 months ago

Apparently doodling can be good for you. Although when I do it, it's not so good for Ed Merritt. A bit before christmas I finally decided to sketch out some ideas I'd been having for a new layout and design for cargowire. The idea was pretty simple. With the homepage acting as a funnel …

Why you should try to be a middle class developer 4 months ago

You may not know this but this blog has been xml based since its inception (in fact there's a longstanding, not yet achieved, task to 'replace' it with a 'better' persistant storage mechanism -- clearly I must agree then, that the perfect is the enemy of the good). But anyway... don't …

Falling out of Kindle love 4 months ago

Have I fallen out of love with my kindle? While reading a book the other day (C# in depth if you're interested... I'd recommend it to all you .net lovers out there.. yes you.. both of you) I suddenly realised something. I was holding a book. Now the odd thing about that of course is that I …

Last night I dreamt something existed that didn't.. 4 months ago

Part of my role at Headscape has included looking at our development processes/practices. There's a blog in this (and it's coming soon), but as a brief teaser to that: I'm using Cruise Control.Net to automate MSBUILD builds from our source control provider. Originally this was happening on a …

SXSW 2011: The tale of the lost man points 4 months ago

The best made plans... So we're here... just, but with far less man points than we started... to be fair I think I've lost out to Ryan on this one For more info see...Ryans post :-)

The start of a brand new year (2011) 4 months ago

Year in review and resolution posts may seem a bit passe, cliche and anything else that ends in an 'e' that sounds like an 'a'... but let's get one out of our (my) system anyway. Rather than an elongated reflection over the year - what I have started, not started, bought, not bought, I'd just …

FOWA London 2010 4 months ago

In keeping with my 'write a blog post when I go to an event' approach to blogging... I was at fowa last weekend! Carsonified were kind enough to allow me to attend as a helper on the day (cheers again to Keir and Lou for sorting that for me). Which meant I was one of the 'Turqoise Shirts' …

Craig Rowe

Coder, Blogger, Atheist, Self-Labeller and Headscape Developer http://cargowire.net

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