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…
From March 2007 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…
From March 2007 “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…
From February 2007 Recently, I’ve learnt the importance of communication. What a cliché. Hands up if you haven’t got something along the lines of – “excellent communicator” on your C.V. We all seem to think we’re good communicators because we all understand ourselves. But do other people…
From January 2007 One of my good friends, who works as part of a sales team once said to me, (paraphrased) “credibility is one of the critical success factors in my job, I’m young, 22, how am I suppose to convince someone to buy from me when they feel…
Wow. Its been over 2 years since my last blog entry. In fact looking at the date of the last entry, it was 2 days after I started my then new job at a large insurance firm in the ‘City Of London’ (Think bowler hats, braces, tie pins etc.). It’…
