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Digital capability plan - would we be better just to wait?

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 13 August 2014 - Categories: Capability

I am 38 and I have a 6 year old son. Pretty soon he'll be outscoring me at Flappy Bird.

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PHP, cheese reviews, and getting your hands dirty

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 8 July 2011 - Categories: Capability

A long time ago I hand-coded a content management system from scratch using PHP and MySQL for a cheese reviews website. It wasn't a very good CMS, and it was a rubbish website. But I did it - it was …

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