A couple of Christmas’s ago my awesome wife got me a GoPro. It’s helped us capture some amazing memories so far, but one of the most time consuming and most critical things to do with the footage is to edit it into something that you can enjoy watching. I remember when I was younger, we […]
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Guest post by Fiona Mills 6 years ago, we moved to Dubai. It was a pretty impulsive move, that happened within 3 months of first thinking about it. One thing that made it easier to move a long-haul flight away from home was knowing that there was a flight direct from Dubai to Newcastle, our […]
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A couple of weeks ago I was spontaneously invited on a Skiing trip to Lebanon by a good friend in Dubai. I received a random WhatsApp from Angiolo, a guy from South Africa who I met through Fiona, saying he had booked accomodation in Lebanon to go Skiing with a friend and the apartment had […]
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The begining Many people think Refresh Teesside started in 2012, but our first event was actually on Thursday 2nd April 2009, which I announced on this very blog. It was September 2008 when I built the first Refresh Teesside website and announced our manifesto. The first event was a great success and the attendance surpassed my […]
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The simplicity of straightening the covers and rearranging the pillows gives you a sense of accomplishment.
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I saw a Tweet from my good friend Anthony Sterling the other day which made me think. Meeting people 1:1 ain’t normally my thing, but I’m happy to step outside my comfort zone to be more like @kwuchu, hit me up if too you fancy a coffee or two in Newcastle in 2019. https://t.co/0RDqbsrXKc — […]
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I know many of you know Basecamp but do any of you follow Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp. Jason has become quite a controversial, outspoken person online. He has published some amazing ‘best seller’ books, and I recommend you all read ‘Getting Real’ (available as a free PDF) Anyway, they have recently started to publish […]
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I created this package to ‘scratch my own itch’. I have a model called Order. I wanted to notify certain people (only people who were watching the order) when the status of the order changed. In this article, I will give you some boilerplate code that you can use in your application to wrap around […]
Read MoreA simple tool to help you decide. Source: Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?
Read MoreI stumbled across Grammarly, I actually think it was a Facebook Ad of all things. I liked the idea of adding the Chrome browser extension because it would mean that I could use it for nearly everything that I do day to day. So far my experience has been good and so I thought it would be worth […]
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