Author: Tim Pizey

I extracted the text: Portentum plagens tua si caret asse commena Pergerian numinis resonat celer intus amice Si tamen esurit luges maxilla calabit Ostia nam miseris fraler sunt semper aperta Which google translates as: If your plag…

There is something wrong with the idea that git gives you confidence to delete. As so often this is from the perspective of the individual programmer. Sure, you can delete your code and you can retreive it. Well done you, but you are relyi…

There is something wrong with the idea that git gives you confidence to delete. As so often this is from the perspective of the individual programmer. Sure, you can delete your code and you can retreive it. Well done you, but you are relyi…

Happy Melati Day! On February 16th 2000 WilliamC made the first commit to Melati. https://github.com/Melati/Melati/commit/7a6fb6762cdbb835b4ff1aeb987bf1671cc598bd The name … Indonesia’s national flowers: the melati (small white…

Happy Melati Day! On February 16th 2000 WilliamC made the first commit to Melati. https://github.com/Melati/Melati/commit/7a6fb6762cdbb835b4ff1aeb987bf1671cc598bd The name … Indonesia’s national flowers: the melati (small white…

In the first post in this series I had thought about the need for a globally unique incrementable artifect id, in the next post I not only designed but tested a proposal for such a globally unique artifact id and how to change it. A t…

I proposed a new versioning scheme to yield a unique version string for each artifact in our highly modularised Maven java application. Currently we are running a classic SemVer semantic verioning system. The only shortcoming I can see wit…

The whole Maven ecosystem, and more, follows the Semantic Versioning proposal from @mojombo who made a success of being right about most things. Even Oracle use it (no more ojdbc.jar for them). The problem Semantic Versioning addressed was th…

The whole Maven ecosystem, and more, follows the Semantic Versioning proposal from @mojombo who made a success of being right about most things. Even Oracle use it (no more ojdbc.jar for them). The problem Semantic Versioning addressed was th…

My eldest has been using Linux on a 2012 macbook pro with 16GB and an SSD where the optical drive used to be, something she did herself whilst at school, so for her twenty first birthday I wanted to give her a new Linux laptop which she could be proud…

My eldest has been using Linux on a 2012 macbook pro with 16GB and an SSD where the optical drive used to be, something she did herself whilst at school, so for her twenty first birthday I wanted to give her a new Linux laptop which she could be proud…

Fast, light lily trotter. Dall-e Hippo. Hippo trotter. For me this is connected with writing software.

Fast, light lily trotter. Dall-e Hippo. Hippo trotter. For me this is connected with writing software.

My current project has 319 Maven POMs. These have been worked upon by at least five ‘generations’ of coders, that is under five different software engineering leads. Maven enables different actions depending upon different profiles…

My current project has 319 Maven POMs. These have been worked upon by at least five ‘generations’ of coders, that is under five different software engineering leads. Maven enables different actions depending upon different profiles…

I realised, as I stumbled forwards with a presentation on my current project, that the presentation can be seen as a Press Release and remembered that I have explicitly followed the Amazon Working Backwards practice twice before. Write th…

I realised, as I stumbled forwards with a presentation on my current project, that the presentation can be seen as a Press Release and remembered that I have explicitly followed the Amazon Working Backwards practice twice before. Write th…

The idea I want to convey, in a slide deck at work, is that the codebase we are working on has not had enough attention for five years. It has been run by a small number of people who managed to keep the system working, ‘kept the lights on’ but the …

Last summer, in Ossun-ez-Angles, Haute Pyrenees, I came across a House Mark above a barn door.

Last summer, in Ossun-ez-Angles, Haute Pyrenees, I came across a House Mark above a barn door.

From The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon via Eldrbarry There were five Tims all told, Old Tim, Big Tim, Little Tim, Young Tim and Baby Tim, and they were all born wise. So whenever something was the matter in the village, or anything went wrong, o…

From The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon via Eldrbarry There were five Tims all told, Old Tim, Big Tim, Little Tim, Young Tim and Baby Tim, and they were all born wise. So whenever something was the matter in the village, or anything went wrong, o…

Dear Anneliese Dodds, I learn from the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58888451) that “The UK is to phase out Russian oil by the end of the year” and “Russian imports account for 8% of total UK oil demand”. 8% is a small amount and the end of t…

User Story As a third line support engineer I want to be able to go to the server class that throws an exception reported by a client So that I do not need to look for the stack trace in the server logs Example Client code if (responseCode != …

User Story As a third line support engineer I want to be able to go to the server class that throws an exception reported by a client So that I do not need to look for the stack trace in the server logs Example Client code if (responseCode != …

The Oracle Ecosystem instance that I inheritted was designed from 2000 and went live in 2004. Its centre piece Oracle Workflow went end of life that year but had new versions through to 2007. In its own way it was a pinnacle of a certain view of softw…

The Oracle Ecosystem instance that I inheritted was designed from 2000 and went live in 2004. Its centre piece Oracle Workflow went end of life that year but had new versions through to 2007. In its own way it was a pinnacle of a certain view of softw…

My grandfather, Norman Angier, worked at Churchill’s Toyshop (M.D.1) as the head civilian engineer during WWII. On VE day “Norman Angier felt it was an occasion for fireworks. He therefore acquired a large batch of quite big rockets and proc…

My grandfather, Norman Angier, worked at Churchill’s Toyshop (M.D.1) as the head civilian engineer during WWII. On VE day “Norman Angier felt it was an occasion for fireworks. He therefore acquired a large batch of quite big rockets and proc…

Place the following in a command file, run it within your repo: #!/bin/sh git filter-branch –env-filter ‘ an=”$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME” am=”$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL” cn=”$GIT_COMMITTER_NAME” cm=”$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL” if [ “$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL” = “timp@paneris.o…

The problem with disaster planning is that it is not rehearsed. When you need to retrieve a file from backup is when you discover that your backup has been broken for three months. Modern cloud systems, based upon software defined infrastructure and…

The problem with disaster planning is that it is not rehearsed. When you need to retrieve a file from backup is when you discover that your backup has been broken for three months. Modern cloud systems, based upon software defined infrastructure and…

I want to change to change the name of a sonarqube project. This cannot be done without performing another analysis. You can just do it in SQL https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30511849/how-to-rename-a-project-in-sonarqube-5-1 but you have to be…

I want to change to change the name of a sonarqube project. This cannot be done without performing another analysis. You can just do it in SQL https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30511849/how-to-rename-a-project-in-sonarqube-5-1 but you have to be…

I have sent the following letter to LTS.Team AT oxfordshire.gov.uk in response to https://consultations.oxfordshire.gov.uk/consult.ti/OxfordRiversideRoutes/. &nbsp Hi, &nbsp I have submitted the following via the questionnaire: &nbsp The Oxpe…

More than twelve years ago Tim Joyce passed on some programming wisdom: With programs tell don’t ask, vice versa for people. This was a bit abstract for me at the time but last night it came back to me as what is wrong with the code I am currently …

More than twelve years ago Tim Joyce passed on some programming wisdom: With programs tell don’t ask, vice versa for people. This was a bit abstract for me at the time but last night it came back to me as what is wrong with the code I am currently …