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,…
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 understand us? Can…
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 like they are…
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’…