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IT is full of bluffers. Thoughts from our resident bluffer.
Privacy with Backend-as-a-Service
Recently I’ve been attempting to control my inbox by reducing the number of extraneous emails I receive. To effect this I have been unsubscribing from as many email lists as possible. One email list
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Management for dummies: procrastination
The evening was descending into pure vaudeville. It was the shiny face as much as his lack of stature that made him seem to appear as a ventriloquist’s dummy, something to which he had
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JavaScript showdown: Fat client versus thin client
Flares had been passé for a number of years but, where I went to school, fashion required any number of years to percolate down from the avant garde to the 11 year old school
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Management 101: Do as I say, not do as I do
“Leading from the front” is often cited as an admirable quality in leadership. The ability to “roll up the sleeves” and “get your hands dirty” are another two similar qualities. There are a multitude
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Nobody kicks sand in the face of PHP anymore
You must have heard of PHP? It’s that crappy programming language that muppets use to produce babyish websites that are full of drivel. PHP used to be an acronym for Personal Home Pages, which
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Rest in peace Internet Explorer
As the English post-punk band New Model Army sang, “hate will drive you onwards, hate will drive you upwards”. I can’t suggest that the lyrics of an act named after Oliver Cromwell’s puritanical group
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Continuing professional development
It was an old college friend who introduced me to the concept of being “on the bench” in relation to work rather than sport. The company he was working for had simply run of
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Hiring contractors is no silver bullet
Contract working is often pot-luck and whilst it would be nice to be able to pick and choose gigs based upon whether they advance career, boost knowledge or remunerate well, the need to pay
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The dream of a Linux Desktop is over
Arguably one of the leading lights in the open source community, Miguel de Icaza, announced that he was ditching Linux as an operating system for desktop computing, or rather he ditched it a while ago
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Intent versus action, or the myth of self-documenting code
There are many great developers, many bad developers and any number in between. But subjective judgement is often temporal: a bad developer one day can be a great one the next. In any human
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