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Who am I? I work for ThoughtWorks as a technical consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. I make things better, mostly by incremental improvements to code quality, architectural fitness, stability, and safe rapid deployments.
Category Archives: Brainfart
Production releases – 0.875 per month
I’m coming up to four years with ThoughtWorks next month, and I’m in a reflective mood. I did a quick count – since joining ThoughtWorks I’ve been involved in the delivery of forty-two (42) application releases into production (give or … Continue reading
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Linux at work again!
For the past couple of months I’ve been working in a very nice workplace with a bunch of nice people and even better some of them run Linux on their desktops without any fear of the SOE-police coming to march … Continue reading
Distracted
Whenever I think I’ll write a blog post, I get as far as logging into my wordpress admin and it’s always the case that a new version of wordpress has been released and it nags me to upgrade. Ooh I … Continue reading
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Subdirectory
Bob Martin: At the ER they put me in a room and gave me a dose of Morphine. Morphine is a very nice drug. It had the effect of filing the pain away in a convenient subdirectory where I could … Continue reading
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Mike wants a new job
Mike has posted his job requirements, as specified in a letter to recruiters. Nice idea. If you are reading this post you probably work for a consulting company or a bank, so don’t bother offering Mike a job. If by … Continue reading
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Another abandoned weblog…
And yet another embarrassed posting about not having written for … well 12 months. I hardly have time to get through my reading in the evenings after Jack goes to bed, much less write something intelligible. I shall try to … Continue reading
Big fat copycat
http://zoomin.com.au Why does it bug me so much that this has so directly copied google maps? Google doesn’t even have Australian map data yet. It’s the lack of innovation that bugs me – and the degree of copying (speech boxes, … Continue reading
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Google Calendar
Very cool. Makes me wonder again how long it’ll be before we all hate google… The evil google empire.
Ross has procreated!
I thought of an ex-colleague/mate today who I haven’t caught up with for ages (at least 6 months)… So I looked up his weblog and kerpow! here’s a shiny new baby! Most definitely weird to find this out via the … Continue reading
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