30-something Web developer based in Birmingham, England. Managing Director of Made Media Ltd.
People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: “If you tell me what to do, the responsibility for the outcome is yours, not mine. I’m safe.” When asked, resist.
— Seth’s Blog: The relentless search for “tell me what to do”
The beginning of February sees a new site launch here at Made, for Bright PR, and award-winning PR and marketing consultancy who are celebrating 10 years in business this year.
In Lisbon for a kick off meeting. Made’s nerdiest project yet.
One of the key values at Facebook is to move fast. For the past six years, we have been able to accomplish a lot thanks to rapid pace of development that PHP offers. As a programming language, PHP is simple. Simple to learn, simple to write, simple to read, and simple to debug. We are able to get new engineers ramped up at Facebook a lot faster with PHP than with other languages, which allows us to innovate faster.
Please RT. We have an urgent need for good PHP freelancers in Birmingham for a month or two. mail CVs and URLs to hello@mademedia.co.uk
Quiet Zones. The world has moved on.
Birmingham is not ‘leading the way’. Rather we need a turnround. As more than one in three jobs (39%) are in the five ‘big hitters’ (London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Liverpool), the turnround of the UK’s largest cities will be critical to the national recovery. The right ingredients to succeed are, the report continues, having a strong private sector (we don’t), high levels of entrepreneurship (we don’t), a highly educated workforce (we don’t) and large shares of knowledge-intensive jobs (we don’t). — as do Brighton, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Milton Keynes and Reading.
— Turnround of UK largest cities critical to the national recovery - Birmingham Post - News Blog
Raphael Selbourne’s debut Beauty has been declared the winner of the prestigious 2009 Costa First Novel Award.
— Beauty by Raphael Selbourne wins 2009 Costa First Novel Award | Tindal St Press
We’re busy bees here at Made with a number of new projects in development, including websites for Indigo, an arts marketing consultancy, Pets Vaccination Clinic and Nottingham Playhouse theatre.
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You might imagine that such traumatic times would be conducive to sombre reflection and seriousness of mind, but in fact no-one could accuse the culture of the noughties of not being trivial enough.
— Birmingham Post - Life & Leisure - Post Features - A decade of achievement in the arts
