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NoConsultant.com work in progress by sagey79

Work is (slowly, in my lunch hours) progressing on the website for my IT recruitment business (currently named noconsultant.com, just a holding page at the moment) After flirting with ruby/rails/mysql/linux stack I've decided to go back to what i do best...
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Ruby and .NET by sagey79

I have been inspired by my previous blog post The joys of IT recruitment (and years of frustration) To start working on a business idea for IT recruitment. The main premise of which is that an IT professional will be much better at vetting candidates...
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The joys of IT recruitment. What do Consultants add? by sagey79

Throughout my IT career I have always been puzzled by the role that recruitment consultants/agencies play. Now i manage an IT department i find it even more vexing that i have to pay someone 15-20% of a developers basic salary just for them to stick an...
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Guerrilla IT. The need for a holistic agile approach to IT by sagey79

Over the past couple of years I've read a lot about the facets/tools of agile development whether it be TDD, pair programming, or Scrum. I even became a certified Scrum master, the course was great, Mike Cohn was great, the other students were interesting...
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looking forward to vs2008 UK launch by sagey79

I'm looking forward to the 19th March and the UK launch event in Birmingham. Why? - Find out more about vs2008, i've installed it on my dev box but haven't had a chance to use it. I'll be interested to find out more about LINQ. i'm still undecided about...
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When to use biztalk and when to roll your own by sagey79

I've been reading up on Biztalk recently (i've never used it in production) i've always been vaguely interested/aware of it since seeing it used as part of a demo in the vs2005 launch tour. Whilst i've been reading up on biztalk i've been trying to think...
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