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Top 5 free IT courses By Nicholas Tan

Whether you’re an absolute coding noob or an experienced developer, everyone benefits from free online resources. We’ve compiled what seems to be the most popular courses hosted on [...]

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16 Sep 2013

Students

IT starting salaries in Singapore for 2013 By Nicholas Tan

So maybe you’re a student deciding between taking a business or a computing degree (or both!), or you’re thinking about pursuing a career in IT but are unsure of future local prospects. [...]

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6 Sep 2013

Developer

Developer Feature: Imagine Cup 2013 Winners Team vSoft Studio By Nicholas Tan

In this Developer Feature series, Spiffy talks to up-and-coming developers to learn what makes them tick. We kick off with Huy Quôc Cao Minh and Nguyen Quy Hy, recent champions of the 2013 Imagine [...]

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20 Aug 2013

Random

How You Unknowingly Helped Transcribe Over 40,000 E-Books By Nicholas Tan

If you’ve ever signed up for a Facebook account or tried to change your password on Twitter, you would have encountered the odd distorted section of the online form which asks you to type in the [...]

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25 Jul 2013

General

How to Be Digitally Sociable By Nicholas Tan

Companies and brands now want to be your Facebook friend Today, social media seems to be more of an afterthought to most businesses rather than a tool as important as traditional communication [...]

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6 Mar 2013

Events

Casual conversations at Fruit Ninja #DevDojo By Nicholas Tan

I had the pleasure of attending Part 1 of the Fruit Ninja Developer Workshop on 14 September, held in Sauce Bar at the Esplanade. The men of the hour who had just flown in from Brisbane –[...]

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20 Sep 2012

General

The tech behind food blogging By Nicholas Tan

Every Singaporean loves food, judging from the popularity of Singapore food bloggers such as superadrianme to the recent sale of hungrygowhere to Singtel for SGD12 million. But did you know about the [...]

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2 Jul 2012

General

Microsoft announces Surface: new family of PCs for Windows By Nicholas Tan

In a recent global study by Swedish telco equipment maker Ericsson, Singaporeans ranked first in the world when it came to the percentage of Internet users owning smartphones. The city-state also came[...]

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19 Jun 2012

General

A different kind of social security By Nicholas Tan

If you’re a member of LinkedIn, Last.fm or eHarmony, it might be a good idea to immediately change your password. In case you haven’t heard, these three sites have been the latest social networks [...]

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11 Jun 2012

General

Real or Instagram-ed? By Nicholas Tan

It used to be that the only people who actively used image filters in the past were those who either knew their Javascript or had some basic working knowledge of Photoshop. [youtube]http://www.youtube[...]

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7 Jun 2012

Author Archives: Nicholas Tan

Top 5 free IT courses By Nicholas Tan

IT starting salaries in Singapore for 2013 By Nicholas Tan

Developer Feature: Imagine Cup 2013 Winners Team vSoft Studio By Nicholas Tan

How You Unknowingly Helped Transcribe Over 40,000 E-Books By Nicholas Tan

How to Be Digitally Sociable By Nicholas Tan

Casual conversations at Fruit Ninja #DevDojo By Nicholas Tan

The tech behind food blogging By Nicholas Tan

Microsoft announces Surface: new family of PCs for Windows By Nicholas Tan

A different kind of social security By Nicholas Tan

Real or Instagram-ed? By Nicholas Tan