The OldWood Thing

Like most programmers I’ve generally tried to steer well clear of getting involved in management duties. The trouble is that as you get olde...

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 ...

Way back at the beginning of my professional programming career I worked for a small software house that wrote graphics software. Although i...

My current role is more of a DevOps role and I’m spending more time than usual monitoring and administrating various services, such as the G...

I was working on a new system – a grid based calculation engine for an investment bank – and I was beginning to read about some crazy ideas ...

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 w...

A few years back I got to spend a couple of weeks consulting at a small company involved in the production of smart cards. My team had been ...