Category: personal
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A Decade of Lightning Talks with Programming One-Liners
Note: This blog post follows the modern recipe style – a load of unimportant background history before presenting the real content. So, just hit page-down a few times if that’s what you came here for, I won’t be offended. Just over 10 years ago,…
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Our Star Baker
Just over 14 years ago I posted the eulogy I wrote for my father on this blog (So Long and Thanks For All the Onions) mostly because I had just started writing and this blog gave me the confidence to write. Sadly, a month ago my mother passed away too …
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Our Star Baker
Just over 14 years ago I posted the eulogy I wrote for my father on this blog (So Long and Thanks For All the Onions) mostly because I had just started writing and this blog gave me the confidence to write. Sadly, a month ago my mother passed away too …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Fast Hardware Hides Many Sins
Way back at the beginning of my professional programming career I worked for a small software house that wrote graphics software. Although it had a desktop publisher and line-art based graphics package in its suite it didn’t have a bitmap editor and so…
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Fast Hardware Hides Many Sins
Way back at the beginning of my professional programming career I worked for a small software house that wrote graphics software. Although it had a desktop publisher and line-art based graphics package in its suite it didn’t have a bitmap editor and so…
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Blog Post #300
I signed off My 200th Blog Post in November 2014 with the following words: See you again in a few years. At the time I didn’t think it would take me over 5 years to write another 100 blog posts, but it has. Does this mean I’ve stopped writing and gone…
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Blog Post #300
I signed off My 200th Blog Post in November 2014 with the following words: See you again in a few years. At the time I didn’t think it would take me over 5 years to write another 100 blog posts, but it has. Does this mean I’ve stopped writing and gone…