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It’s been a long time coming, but finally my two business partners, Ale and Clarence, have taken the big leap to join SambaStream full time, leaving their full time jobs in Accenture. To celebrate, we took this photo in front of an Accenture Tiger Woods…

Ale & Clarence Leave Accenture

December 2, 2008

The last couple of days I’ve been at Olympia in London for the Business Start-up event 2008. Every year thousands of people interested in or presently running a business descend on the event to see 100’s of exhibitors offering services and seminars with some well…

Business Start-up Event London 2008

November 29, 2008

It is with great pleasure today we finally got our site, http://www.sambastream.com up online! Small steps towards something much bigger! For those of you that don’t know, I left my job with Accenture in July to found a start-up with 2 workmates, let me take…

SambaStream.com Finally Online

November 10, 2008

After months of waiting and speculation, my favourite to win the US elections, Barack Obama, HAS WON!! I’ve been following him closely since I was working in the US (Baltimore, MD) earlier this year and my co-worker Sri, who was one of his biggest supporters…

Obama Wins – I Can Finally Forgive My American Friends!

November 5, 2008

Tonight I presented at the Drupal for NGO’s event in London that I go to sometimes. Its basically an event to connect Drupal developers to NGOs so us developers can help NGO’s build sites and online applications (using Drupal of course). Obviously with my Accenture…

Drupal For NGO’s Presentation – Ashoka Connect Website

October 23, 2008

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Finally I’ve managed to find the time to put up my presentation from Barcamp London last month in the EBay offices in Richmond. It was a fantastic day, and I’m fortunate that my good friend Josh Lui from Minutebox was there to let me know…

Selling Software To Enterprises

October 16, 2008

Finally I’ve managed to find the time to complete my consulting website to support my freelancing business, and put it under the subdomain consulting.davidgildeh.com (you can also click ‘Consulting’ above to get to it.) No longer am I a freelance web developer without a website!…

Consulting Lessons Learned

October 13, 2008

Recently I’ve met a number of start-ups who’ve spent lots of time and money building a custom solution for their new website or web application! Not everyone knows about web technology the way a Geek like me does, so hopefully I’ll catch you in time…

Why do start-ups keep re-inventing the wheel?

September 30, 2008

Recently I’ve met a lot of start-ups asking me about offshoring because of my freelancing model. For those of you who aren’t aware of what I do, part time I freelance for start-ups and other companies developing Drupal sites (because Drupal is amazing and can…

Offshoring best practices

September 24, 2008

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Yesterday, I walked past an O2 store that had iPhone 3Gs in stock (a rare event these days!), so on impulse, because I’d already been drawn in by their sexiness and my friends who had one couldn’t stop going on about them, I decided it…

First 24hrs with an iPhone…

August 21, 2008

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