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Don’t Get Throttled

The agile family of software development methodologies is now pretty firmly established. Developers have always been some of the most firm supporters of these approaches. And as developers, we like to focus on the good practices that produce better software: testing, story driven development, continuous integration, etc.

And these are all wonderful things. But, from the [...]

2009 10 06 giles comp. sci. Comments (0)

Computers Hate Me

It’s true, they do. Possibly something of a disadvantage in my chosen career, but I get by, carefully. Don’t believe me? Hear my tales of woe, come cry with poor, poor me.

April, 1997 – Still at University, just started my second year of a computer science degree. I save up the cash and buy the first computer of my [...]

2008 04 06 giles comp. sci. Comments (1)