There's one thing we got to get, Heyes....
...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, Han…
Tagged: software-development
The Last of the Magicians
"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 …
'Does Microsoft move the cheese too often?'
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 …
And Facebook carries on downwards....
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' associate…
Happy (Belated) Birthday Speccy!
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 te…
If it ain't on your machine, it ain't yours.
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…
The Death of Google Wave
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 opportunit…
I write software...to solve problems
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 microprocesso…
I was right to blame it on sunspots!
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 st…
Configuring MOWES on a USB Stick
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 yo…