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2023/01/21

The three sieves of Socrates - can the tests for gossip also filter fake news?

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Famously quoted and cited as a story of Socrates challenging a friend, the 'three sieves' or the 'three filters' were intend...
2023/01/18

Git version control system cheat sheet - life of a repository

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The git  distributed version control tool is one of the most popular versioning tools in use in the software industry today. It has a long h...
2023/01/17

Word of the day: effusive

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In order to stir the grey matter, and learn a little along the way, here is the word for the day Effusive Adjective.  Showing gratitude, ple...
2021/09/19

Identiy, Users and Access: The holey trinity

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  Identity, Users and Access: The holey trinity For some time I have been meaning to capture a snapshot of some of the key design considerat...

Startup ENG Rules Series. 1. Storage. Prefer Insertions to Updates

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              Background                               Over the last decade I have worked at a number of very large and very small compa...
2018/06/30

Top tips for refreshing Android skills with the Little Miracle prototype

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Over the last few weeks I have been working on a prototype of a pregnancy contraction tracking app and wanted to share some tips from my exp...
2018/03/29

Changing teams at Google

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After spending a little over a year working with Ads partners I am now moving to a different team working with Google partners! Part of th...
2017/02/15

Redeploying Rediscover.Work to Save Money Part 2

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Migrating to Google App Engine was more straightforward than trying to rebuild my environment and meant I had to change a few things in my ...
2017/02/12

Redeploying Rediscover.Work to Save Money Part 1

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After five years working in startups, and more recently in ' stealth mode ' startups I have decided to go back to my favourite place...
2017/02/11

Wine Tasting at Majestic Camden

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I recently attended my first wine tasting which was organised by my private Somelier. We  Definition wines from Majestic which it selects...
2017/02/08

Living with Android 4.* on Samsung S3

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The Due to a screen fade issue with my Samsung S7 I recently had the chance to downgrade temporarily to my old Samsung S3. The first ...
2016/09/23

Discovering The Beauty of Tuscany in Italy

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Italy is without exception my favourite place to visit and my last trip was no exception. There are some really stunning places but my favo...
2016/05/31

QA for the Customer

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Some time ago I had the chance to work wuth a development team which had separate QA resource. The team was working in the standard "ov...
2016/04/19

Recruiting Full Stack Developer

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I recently joined www.parktechnology.com as the CTO. One of the great pleasures of my role is to start hiring a technology team. The first...

Blog Draft Ratio: Should We Publish Everything

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Recently I have had a proliferation of ideas about blog posts to write. The challenge is knowing which are really interesting to readers. ...
2016/03/13

Random Damage

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One of the hardest things to rationalise are random acts. Today I found someone had pushed my motorbike over. Unfortunately there was quite ...
2016/01/19

How to Apply Sales CRM to Job Hunting

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After reading a number of books on sales about using technology like Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools to measure and qualify ...
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2016/01/15

Fix Found for Foundation 5 Syntax error unrecognized expression

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If you are using Zurb Foundation 5 and are seeing this error message: Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [data-'Ti...
2016/01/14

Installation Issues of Ubuntu 15.10 and 14.04 on Lenovo X1 Carbon

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I recently bought a Lenovo X1 Carbon and had a bit of a 'mare' installing Ubuntu (both 15.10 and 1.04). I had error messages like:...
2015/12/31

Which is the next hot technology for full stack developers?

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I am trying to compile a list of technology stacks that full stack developers are using and could in the future become part of a recogni...