Jake Grimley

30-something Web developer based in Birmingham, England. Managing Director of Made Media Ltd.

February 8, 2010 at 10:36am
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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”

February 4, 2010 at 8:57pm
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MathJax →

1:32pm
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Bright new website →

Bright PR website

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.

10:22am
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In Lisbon for a kick off meeting. Made’s nerdiest project yet.

February 3, 2010 at 9:46am
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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.

— Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast

February 1, 2010 at 6:10pm
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Citizens Theatre →

January 29, 2010 at 10:58am
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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

January 21, 2010 at 7:14pm
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Quiet Zones. The world has moved on.

January 19, 2010 at 9:33am
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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

9:31am
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Free font Zag™ on the Behance Network

Free font Zag™ on the Behance Network

January 7, 2010 at 9:50am
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A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

January 6, 2010 at 5:56pm
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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

4:34pm
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Happy New Year! →

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.

11:48am
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:: AppMakr →

January 5, 2010 at 9:13am
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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