Now, I don’t know about you, but I like SPAM. Yes, yes, I do. specially pressed American meats.. Salty unidentifiable slabs of animal protein and… Pork, Salt, Starch, Water, Ham, Sugar, Trisodium Diphosphate and of course, those yummy YUMMY flavourings,…
I Love…
… Test Driven Development. I was pulled off developing the next set of features for the application I support to do some urgently required changes on other parts of the application. I was doing work on this new section, and…
One Device….
I am a strong advocate of the idea of ‘one device’ One mobile device that is. For all needs, phone, reading books, listening to music, anything. And for the longest time, thats been my huge T-Mobile MDA II. But, recently,…
Viral Marketing
I would love to own an anti-virus company, but I just don’t know if I would be able to sleep at nights. The other day, I had to do something to my sons laptop, and when I logged in, the…
Model Security
Bruce Perens released an addon for Ruby on Rails. This addressed the requirement of limiting access to columns of the database depending on the specified user. Now, there was lots of interest, but when you actually dug into the code…
Not So Agile.
Here is a link to an interesting article ragarding the current interest in Agile ‘methods’ As it says, there ain’t no magic bullet. Good Agile, Bad Agile
Shamed
Well, its been a long time since I posted anything here. 20 days by the log. And a good friend pointed this out to me after I sent him a link to an article. Should’a blogged it. Well, Ok… So…
It’s a mans world?
Nope. It’s a womans world. Anyone who says any different is deluded or lying. Don’t believe me? Ok, lets go through some hypothetical situations. Husband and Wife, wife wants to get pregnant, husband does not. She stops birth control and…
Heads I win, Tails you Lose
Or why controlling the playing field gives you the game. British Politics, sleeze and hidden agendas. I feel that the current government problems regarding cash for parliamentary seats scandal is being manipulated to forward a hidden or not so hidden…
The battle for a Heart and Mind (mine)
I sat in Cathay Pacific ( a chinese restaurant in the Trafford Centre ). In agony… Well, an agony of indecision, anyway. On my left shoulder a lone white figure, looking a bit nervous and lonely, glancing over at the…