I almost certainly won’t sign your NDA, here’s why…

tl;dr: Most NDAs in are harmful to my business and most importantly bad for my clients. Please don’t take offence if I don’t sign yours. Like many others who work in freelance software development I am frequently asked to sign NDAs. As with employment contracts, these are seen by many as a formality and the […]

Marcus Povey

tl;dr: Most NDAs in are harmful to my business and most importantly bad for my clients. Please don’t take offence if I don’t sign yours. Like many others who work in freelance software development I am frequently asked to sign NDAs. As with employment contracts, these are seen by many as a formality and the […]

Optimising your LAMP stack for performance

By default, the standard LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php/Perl/Python) stack doesn’t come particularly well optimised for handling more than a trivial amount of load. For most people this isn’t a problem, either they’re running on a large enough server or their traffic is at a level that they never hit against the limits. Anyway, I’ve […]

Marcus Povey

By default, the standard LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php/Perl/Python) stack doesn’t come particularly well optimised for handling more than a trivial amount of load. For most people this isn’t a problem, either they’re running on a large enough server or their traffic is at a level that they never hit against the limits. Anyway, I’ve […]

What happened to all the free Wifi?

Once upon a time it used to be easy to find free wifi. If you needed to check your email or do a bit of work while on the go it just used to be a matter of popping into the nearest coffee shop. But increasingly these pools of signal seem to be drying up, […]

Marcus Povey

Once upon a time it used to be easy to find free wifi. If you needed to check your email or do a bit of work while on the go it just used to be a matter of popping into the nearest coffee shop. But increasingly these pools of signal seem to be drying up, […]