Software Development | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:50:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 There’s one thing we got to get, Heyes…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/07/theres-one-thing-we-got-to-get-heyes/ Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:12:05 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1533 …and that’s out of this business!” One of the TV highlights of the week for me in the early 1970s was the TV series ‘Alias Smith and Jones‘, following the adventures of two outlaws on probation, Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, as they attempted to stay ahead of the law and out of trouble. At […]

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]]> The Last of the Magicians https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/06/the-last-of-the-magicians/ Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:53:20 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1465 “He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.” So wrote John Maynard Keynes about Sir Isaac Newton […]

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]]> ‘Does Microsoft move the cheese too often?’ https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/06/does-microsoft-move-the-cheese-too-often/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:49:33 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1468 Every now and again I bother to read something about my profession.  I know that this sounds rather bad – continuous professional development and all that stuff – but usually I’m too busy doing stuff to read about what others are doing or what I might be doing in 2 years time.  And so I […]

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]]> And Facebook carries on downwards…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/05/and-facebook-carries-on-downwards/ Wed, 23 May 2012 07:25:14 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1499 In my last post I questioned the value given to Facebook in their IPO.  It became clear at the close of first day trading that things hadn’t gone according to plan; the usual ‘Day One Spike’ associated with high profile technology IPOs just didn’t happen, and I have a feeling that the only reason that […]

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]]> Happy (Belated) Birthday Speccy! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/05/happy-belated-birthday-speccy/ Mon, 07 May 2012 10:19:25 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1426 It always takes me a while to catch up with things, but it was recently the 30th Birthday of the Sinclair Spectrum. Like many of a certain age, the Speccy was one of the computers on which I cut my teeth.  I was lucky enough to have been exposed to most of the popular home computers […]

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]]> If it ain’t on your machine, it ain’t yours. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/12/if-it-aint-on-your-machine-it-aint-yours/ Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:14:20 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1282 Yesterday I found out that Yahoo had pulled the plug on the Delicious application, amongst a few other APIs and services.  There will no doubt now be a spate of articles about how to move your content from these applications to somewhere else, and it may be that new services spring up out of the […]

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]]> The Death of Google Wave https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/09/the-death-of-google-wave/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:06:45 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1242 Not for Google Wave the sudden death; more a slow, drawn out lingering farewell on the life support machine of ‘development has been stopped’. I guess it gives the boys at Mountain View the opportunity to change their minds if the pressure gets too much. The demise of Wave doesn’t actually surprise me; I’m surprised […]

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]]> I write software…to solve problems https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/08/i-write-software-to-solve-problems/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:29:48 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1225 Well, it’s a while since I wrote a blog post so why not kick off with a slight bit of professional heresy.  I write software for a living; have done for over 30 years, starting with SCMP microprocessors in my teens (yes, I was THAT sort of teenager…) and working through everything in between until […]

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]]> I was right to blame it on sunspots! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/07/i-was-right-to-blame-it-on-sunspots/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:10:27 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1176 Early on in my consulting career – late 1980s, early 1990s – I did a lot of work for a public sector organisation.  I worked on a number of projects – this was in the days when IT consultants could still be generalists, applying their skills to whatever was needed – and tended to specialise […]

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]]> Configuring MOWES on a USB Stick https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/06/configuring-mowes-on-a-usb-stick/ Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:59:23 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1166 There’s an old saying that you can neither be too thin  or have too much money.  I’d like to add to that list – you can’t have too many web servers available on your PC.   For the non-geeks amongst you, a web server is a program that runs on a computer to ‘serve up’ web pages.  […]

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