I’ve always admired the quotes of Anne Frank [http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/anne_frank.html], for several reasons. Firstly, even through translation her brevity and clarity are hard to match in any form of literature I’ve ever read. The quote “I must uphold my ideals,…
You’ve probably heard the phrase “if you havent got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” … Why is there so much facebook hating going on, I seriously don’t understand it, do you remember MySpace? Of course they havent got everything right yet, but I’ve…
When you ask people, what's your favourite song? Or what's your favourite film? The answers is invariably, “there's too many I like to name one”. Personally, I think this is because, by giving one definitive answer you might feel as though you’ll be typecast, or the permanency of such…
I was thinking the other day about this blog, how I don’t blog often enough, and why that might be. I found plenty of excuses, of course the real reason is because im not motivated to, but there are a few other reasons around it. Firstly, perhaps wordpress isnt…
People often ask me, what do you do? For most of the population I suspect the answer is easy, and satisfying. But what do I say? Software engineer, software developer, software something, software nothing. I feel that whatever I say will mislead people, I don’t purely develop, goodness no.…
It’s easy to forget how fast things can change, especially in an industry like I.T. Recently, someone introduced me to the concept of “boiling frogs”, and that a frog will jump out of boiling water if put straight in, but stay in the water and boil alive if…
A blog is often like an interior monologue. I feel I need to put a few things down, even if its just so I can read it over a year down the line and see how naive I was/still am.A pretty good measure of success is profit. Be…
“Ahh poop” or words to that effect, could be heard resounding through my flat in the middle of last week. Throwing away code is hard. I’d just worked out that the 3 classes I’d written, were wrong. Worse, the 3 sets of tests that I had written (first,…
