The OldWood Thing

My latest contract sees me working with a different Version Control System, this time it’s Subversion. Quite how I’ve managed to avoid knowi...

During the last week I’ve been doing some interop development at work. As you might expect from a financial institution the core analytics a...

So I’ve been on The Dark Side (as my C++ biased ex-work colleagues call it) for a little under 2 months now. Most of the first few weeks wer...

Something that I’ve always taken for granted when programming is that certain verbs imply certain behaviours. I thought it would be useful t...

Much as I love my dear Dell XPS 1200 - it’s a lovely laptop to do development on – it’s still a little too heavy to just slip into my rucksa...

This week marks a palindromic moment in my relationship with my wife. On the one hand we have been married for 12 years, as of Monday. But w...

My eldest has a presentation to do for his English class at school which I managed to catch him practising. It's about the history of vi...