Month: November 2020

  • Planning is Inevitable

    Like most programmers I’ve generally tried to steer well clear of getting involved in management duties. The trouble is that as you get older I think this becomes harder and harder to avoid. Once you get the mechanics of programming under control you m…

  • Planning is Inevitable

    Like most programmers I’ve generally tried to steer well clear of getting involved in management duties. The trouble is that as you get older I think this becomes harder and harder to avoid. Once you get the mechanics of programming under control you m…

  • Reality is not what is seems

    is an excellent book by Carlo Rovelli (isbn 978-0-141-98321-9) As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. It doesn’t describe where there is a particle but how the particle shows itself to others. It isn’t things that enter into relations…

  • Reality is not what is seems

    is an excellent book by Carlo Rovelli (isbn 978-0-141-98321-9) As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. It doesn’t describe where there is a particle but how the particle shows itself to others. It isn’t things that enter into relations…

  • Pair Programming Interviews

    Let’s be honest, hiring people is hard and there are no perfect approaches. However it feels somewhat logical that if you’re hiring someone who will spend a significant amount of their time solving problems by writing software, then you should probably…

  • Pair Programming Interviews

    Let’s be honest, hiring people is hard and there are no perfect approaches. However it feels somewhat logical that if you’re hiring someone who will spend a significant amount of their time solving problems by writing software, then you should probably…

  • Letter to Anneliese Dodds MP: Support for the Labour Left

    Dear Anneliese Dodds MP,  I have voted for you in the last two elections, as a proxy for my support for Jeremy Corbyn, though your attendance and performance at the hustings arranged by the Stop the War Coalition was a reason for my suppor…