The OldWood Thing

This post was prompted by a document I read which was presented as a development guide. While the rest of it was about style, the section th...

As one of the few devs that both likes and is reasonably well-versed in PowerShell I became the point of contact for a colleague that was be...

An interesting bug cropped up the other day in a dub configuration file which made me realise I wasn’t consciously aware of the precedence ...

[I’m sure there is something else going on here but on the off-chance someone else is also observing this and also lost at least they’ll kno...

We were writing a new service to distribute financial pricing data around the trading floor as a companion to our new desktop pricing tool. ...

I had taken a new contract at an investment bank and started working on a very mature codebase which was stored in ClearCase. As a long-time...

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...