tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354530612009-07-21T16:53:52.404ZPaul Marden is Director of Orcare Limited and Capacity Builders International Limited.Paul Mardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898532044291277185noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453061.post-13918792945392662412009-07-21T15:07:00.005Z2009-07-21T15:56:18.239Z

Following Britain's victory over the Aussies in the Ashes yesterday British Airways and Qantas joined forces to promote a sale of return tickets on the kangaroo route at bargain basement prices.There's nothing new about that though, as they did the same back in 2005, where tickets sold out in around 30 minutes. What has been impressive this year is BA's use of Twitter to advertise the sale and

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The Orcare move to the Hub at IQ Farnborough has made it into the news. Scary!Bracknell StandardRadio BracknellSwansea University Almuni News

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Today we published three new design templates for Umbraco, the Open Source Content Management System based on Microsoft technologies. We've offered them as free to download under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. The design templates are based on designs produced by styleshout.com, and we've packaged the to work with the new Runway feature in Umbraco version 4. For those not in

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It's now official Orcare has moved to The Hub at IQ Farnborough. We moved into the offices just after christmas, but it's taken a while for the paperwork to go through and the registered office to change. The space gives us an opportunity to work together more collaboratively and also some space to expand the workforce.A great side effect is that the place feels like a real incubator for new

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The guys over at the Umbraco Core Team have released the first production edition of Version 4, and by golly it's a belter. There are many great enhancements in this release which appeal to designers, developers and administrators. There are a couple of big changes which affect my site freeumbracotemplates.co.uk, Master Pages and Runway. Niels and the team have undertaken open heart surgery on

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I've just created a wordle of my del.icio.us tags.....how cool is that.

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I'm still putting the finishing touches on, but I've just published a new meta-Umbraco website (a site about Umbraco using Umbraco). This one's a site containing free design templates for loading into Umbraco, you'll find it at freeumbracotemplates.co.uk.All of the templates will be released under an open source license of some sort, in fact the first three templates are released under Creative

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I've just created my very first Umbraco Package and my very first OpenSource bit of software. It's designed to be a simple Product Catalogue which integrates with Google Checkout which provides shopping cart and payment fulfillment services. Thus it provides e-Commerce functionality to Umbraco.The package is available on Codeplex for downloading and installing into an Umbraco installation.The

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Imtiaz and I got the chance to present our OW presentation at Redwood at a RAC Developers day. Way cool.

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With my friend and colleague Imtiaz Mazhary, I had the opportunity to present at Oracle OpenWorld 2007 in San Francisco on behalf of BA today.It was my first big conference presentation, and there was much stage fright but it was a great experience.Oracle Rac Presentation at Oracle Open WorldView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: oracle world)Other than presenting, my best

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The things We’ll always remember about Japan: alarms played at the entrance of every subway, the tinny music played at every pedestrian crossing, the music played by the rubbish trucks as they make their way along the street, music played from lampposts, the fashion sense (or lack of it!), surgical face masks, geisha, bowing, the traditional dress worn by men and women, the chanting of the monks

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Took the subway to the heart of the city to spend a day exploring. All a bit much after spending the last few days in laid-back Kyoto and something of a culture shock. Decided beforehand that we wanted to hunt out Muji to see how it compared to the London stores we were used to. Spent hours walking in circles trying to find it but happening upon lots of other nice stores and taking lots of pit

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Started our final day in Kyoto with a trip to Kinkaku-ji (the gold pavilion). The pictures we’d seen didn’t do the real thing justice - a two storey temple covered in gold leaf, sat on a lake so that the effect was doubled with its own reflection. Seeing it as it began to snow added something extra special.. Snaked around the grounds along the pathways and steps that kept bringing you back to

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Took the train to Nara – the historical capital of Japan, to hunt out the world’s largest bronze sculpture of Buddha. Once there we made our way from the train station on foot through Nara-Koen park, having bought special biscuits from the street sellers along the way to feed the tame deer that roam there. Had an amazing time feeding the young deer and watching other people unfortunate enough to

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Took a cab from the hotel to Sanjusangen-dō to see the 1001 life sized figures of the Amida Buddha – each with 1000 arms holding symbolic treasures. Wish we could have captured what we’d seen but no photos allowed.Walked on to Kiyomizu-dera – a complex of temples all painted in bright orange and decorated with sculpted animals and flowers. The centrepiece was the main temple, with its 13 metre

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Woke up to a lovely day and sat drinking coffee in our room overlooking the mountains as we planned the day ahead.Struggled, but managed, to buy subway tickets to Imagadawa Street to start our first day immersing ourselves in the many temples and shrines in the Southeast quarter of the city. A long walk to Ginkaku-ji, passing through the Imperial Palace Gardens on our way, was well worth it, with

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Started the holiday in style getting club seats on the upper deck and having breakfast in the airport lounge before take off. Just what we needed for our mammoth journey – an 11½ hour flight, followed by an hour’s train ride from Narita airport to Tokyo, to pick up the 3 hour bullet train that would take us to Kyoto.Stood on the platform waiting to board the train to Tokyo we couldn’t quite

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Little Dennis - Falmouth 3. For New Years we headed to Cornwall, heres us at Pendennis in Falmouth. Slideshow of our photos.

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I've just uploaded my christmas list to Wishlistr. Go on buy me something.

Paul Mardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898532044291277185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35453061.post-1159904458411998242006-10-03T19:34:00.000Z2006-11-11T00:08:21.984Z

.flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 186 - Park Ave. My first try at blogging a photo from flickr. A Yellow Cab on Park Lane South at night.

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Doing my best to convert my old website to a new blogger enabled site. All the photies are going to flickr, and the content onto blogger.

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