Code, startups, motorbikes and more.https://www.damienallison.com/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/why-baack-a-new-headless-cms-and-dxp/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/why-baack-a-new-headless-cms-and-dxp/Since 2010 ot there abouts, the fitst time I left Google, I have had a keen interet in startups.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:03:26 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-three-sieves-of-socrates-can-the-tests-for-gossip-also-filter-fake/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-three-sieves-of-socrates-can-the-tests-for-gossip-also-filter-fake/Famously quoted and cited as a story of Socrates challenging a friend, the 'three sieves' or the 'three filters' were intended as a way to decide whether to believe…Sat, 21 Jan 2023 01:37:00 GMTThoughtOfTheDayhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/git-version-control-system-cheat-sheet-life-of-a-repository/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/git-version-control-system-cheat-sheet-life-of-a-repository/The git distributed version control tool is one of the most popular versioning tools in use in the software industry today.Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:55:00 GMTCodeGithttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/word-of-the-day-effusive/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/word-of-the-day-effusive/In order to stir the grey matter, and learn a little along the way, here is the word for the day Effusive Adjective.Tue, 17 Jan 2023 19:26:00 GMTWordOfTheDayhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/identiy-users-and-access-the-holey-trinity/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/identiy-users-and-access-the-holey-trinity/Identity, Users and Access: The holey trinity For some time I have been meaning to capture a snapshot of some of the key design considerations for the identity and…Sun, 19 Sep 2021 16:47:00 GMTArchitectureCodeDateDesignSiteMorphStartUpSunday BlogTechnologyUpgrade Digitalhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/startup-eng-rules-series-1-storage-prefer-insertions-to-updates/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/startup-eng-rules-series-1-storage-prefer-insertions-to-updates/Background Over the last decade I have worked at a number of very large and very small companies, the smallest being just two people and the largest having over one…Sun, 19 Sep 2021 16:16:00 GMTAlwaysFridayCodeENG RulesRediscover WorkSiteMorphSunday BlogTechnologyUpgrade Digitalhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/top-tips-for-refreshing-android-skills-with-the-little-miracle/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/top-tips-for-refreshing-android-skills-with-the-little-miracle/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 experience so far.Sat, 30 Jun 2018 14:04:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/changing-teams-at-google/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/changing-teams-at-google/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 the transition involves getting…Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:14:00 GMTAndroidCodehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/redeploying-rediscover-work-to-save-money-part-2/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/redeploying-rediscover-work-to-save-money-part-2/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 setup.Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:09:00 GMTAnsibleCodeRediscover WorkSunday BlogTechnologyhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/redeploying-rediscover-work-to-save-money-part-1/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/redeploying-rediscover-work-to-save-money-part-1/After five years working in startups, and more recently in 'stealth mode' startups I have decided to go back to my favourite place to work.Sun, 12 Feb 2017 22:07:00 GMTAnsibleCodeRediscover WorkSunday BlogTechnologyhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/wine-tasting-at-majestic-camden/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/wine-tasting-at-majestic-camden/I recently attended my first wine tasting which was organised by my private Somelier.Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:24:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/living-with-android-4-on-samsung-s3/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/living-with-android-4-on-samsung-s3/The Due to a screen fade issue with my Samsung S7 I recently had the chance to downgrade temporarily to my old Samsung S3.Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:32:00 GMTAndroidInspirationTechnologyhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/discovering-the-beauty-of-tuscany-in-italy/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/discovering-the-beauty-of-tuscany-in-italy/Italy is without exception my favourite place to visit and my last trip was no exception.Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:45:00 GMTInspirationItalyTravelTuscanyhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/qa-for-the-customer/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/qa-for-the-customer/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 "over the wall" mentality.Tue, 31 May 2016 12:21:00 GMTQualitySunday BlogTechnologyhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/recruiting-full-stack-developer/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/recruiting-full-stack-developer/I recently joined www.parktechnology.com as the CTO. One of the great pleasures of my role is to start hiring a technology team.Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:59:00 GMTCodeInspirationPark TechnologyRecruitmentStartUpTechnologyhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/blog-draft-ratio-should-we-publish-everything/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/blog-draft-ratio-should-we-publish-everything/Recently I have had a proliferation of ideas about blog posts to write. The challenge is knowing which are really interesting to readers.Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:53:00 GMTInspirationSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/random-damage/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/random-damage/One of the hardest things to rationalise are random acts. Today I found someone had pushed my motorbike over. Unfortunately there was quite a bit of damage.Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:26:00 GMTMotorbikehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/how-to-apply-sales-crm-to-job-hunting/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/how-to-apply-sales-crm-to-job-hunting/After reading a number of books on sales about using technology like Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools to measure and qualify your sales funnel to increase…Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:24:00 GMTInspirationRecruitmentSalesSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/fix-found-for-foundation-5-syntax-error-unrecognized-expression/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/fix-found-for-foundation-5-syntax-error-unrecognized-expression/If you are using Zurb Foundation 5 and are seeing this error message: Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [data-'Times New Roman'-dropdown] Then check…Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:24:00 GMTCodehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/installation-issues-of-ubuntu-15-10-and-14-04-on-lenovo-x1-carbon/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/installation-issues-of-ubuntu-15-10-and-14-04-on-lenovo-x1-carbon/I recently bought a Lenovo X1 Carbon and had a bit of a 'mare' installing Ubuntu (both 15.10 and 1.04).Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:27:00 GMTLenovoTechnologyUbuntuhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/which-is-the-next-hot-technology-for-full-stack-developers/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/which-is-the-next-hot-technology-for-full-stack-developers/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 recognised approach like LAMP.Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:33:00 GMTCodeInspirationTechnologyhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/ansible-destination-not-writable/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/ansible-destination-not-writable/This is a quick blog post FYI in case you are searching for error messages like: msg: Destination /etc/mysql/my.cnf not writable This may be caused by the need to set…Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:23:00 GMTAnsibleCodeOpenSourceTechnologyhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-three-stages-of-software-design-evolution/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-three-stages-of-software-design-evolution/I have had a number of conversations lately with different people on the subject of assessing job candidate competency.Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:53:00 GMTDesignStartUpSunday BlogTechnologyhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/sales-university/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/sales-university/In a previous post I mentioned the sales training from Rod Sloane which I attended at Google campus.Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:37:00 GMTInspirationSalesStartUpUpgrade Digitalhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/web-summit-2015-with-upgrade-digital/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/web-summit-2015-with-upgrade-digital/In November this year I was lucky enough to be able to attend Web Summit to promote Upgrade Digital The web summit venue is truly vast.Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:56:00 GMTStartUpSunday BlogTravelUpgrade Digitalhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/ssl-test-certificate-bleed/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/ssl-test-certificate-bleed/Many of the people I have worked with will know of my distaste for self signed SSL certificates in test environments.Sun, 01 Nov 2015 13:03:00 GMTSecuritySunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-simple-guide-to-startup-sales-from-rod-sloane-campuslondon/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-simple-guide-to-startup-sales-from-rod-sloane-campuslondon/Today I was at @campuslondon and just happened to attend an event on sales for startups. The event was held by Rod Sloane.Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:09:00 GMTInspirationSalesStartUpUpgrade Digitalhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/shopping-trip-to-durham/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/shopping-trip-to-durham/For the last few weekends I have been visiting Durham to do a bit of shopping. It has been a long time since I spent much time in the city other than just passing…Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:56:00 GMTSunday BlogTravelhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/refactoring-bookable-resource-api/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/refactoring-bookable-resource-api/One of the key principles of the design of many of the different API platforms I have built recently was to separate the model exposed to users from what is stored.Sat, 26 Sep 2015 14:35:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/heading-back-to-the-uk-after-four-months/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/heading-back-to-the-uk-after-four-months/After four months away with occasional trips back I am heading home to the UK tomorrow. In this stint I have been away for over 50 days.Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:28:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/when-i-said-i-was-in-need-of-a-break-i-didnt-mean-a-bone/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/when-i-said-i-was-in-need-of-a-break-i-didnt-mean-a-bone/Unfortunately a couple of days into my second week in Mauritius I broke my right leg kite surfing.Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:29:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/after-a-week-in-maruitius/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/after-a-week-in-maruitius/After a week in Mauritius I have still only managed to see about half of the island and haven't made a dint in my to-do list.Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:19:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/mauritius-day-6-much-in-need-of-a-break/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/mauritius-day-6-much-in-need-of-a-break/Over the last few days I have earned a few bruises and some aches to boot so decided that today I would take it easy.Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:43:00 GMTMauritiusTravelhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/mauritius-day-5-kite-lesson-3-and-snorkelling/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/mauritius-day-5-kite-lesson-3-and-snorkelling/Today the wind was much better than forecast, reaching over 20knots and giving me more than enough power to get myself into trouble on today's lesson.Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:42:00 GMTInspirationKitesurfMauritiusTravelhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/estimating-api-web-traffic-load/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/estimating-api-web-traffic-load/One of the challenges facing anyone trying to capacity plan is how to estimate immediate concurrent load on the system.Tue, 04 Aug 2015 18:09:00 GMTArchitectureCapacity PlanningCodeStartUpUpgrade Digitalhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/mauritius-day-4-adding-surfing-to-flying-a-kite/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/mauritius-day-4-adding-surfing-to-flying-a-kite/Having pretty much gotten over the jet lag (and exhaustion) I woke a little earlier today so that I could go for a swim.Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:49:00 GMTInspirationKitesurfMauritiusTravelhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/mauritius-day-3-kite-surfing-refresher/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/mauritius-day-3-kite-surfing-refresher/Today I had my first kite surfing lesson here in Mauritius, the goal was to review everything I know and get a bit of confidence and practice before the next step…Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:59:00 GMTKitesurfMauritiusSaxophoneTravelhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/mauritius-day-2-discovering-kite-surfing-nirvarna-and-testing/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/mauritius-day-2-discovering-kite-surfing-nirvarna-and-testing/I learned from Fuerteventura that kite surfing lessons can be hard to book due to demand so I thought I should probably get myself along to sort out some lessons.Sun, 02 Aug 2015 19:48:00 GMTInspirationKitesurfMauritiusSunday BlogTravelhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/welcome-to-mauritius/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/welcome-to-mauritius/From the moment you arrive in Mauritius you are aware just how stunning a place it is, even the airport seemed to help frame the mountains in the south west of the…Sat, 01 Aug 2015 20:07:00 GMTMauritiusTravelhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/goodbye-stockholm-or-parhaps-au-revoir-how-to-make-the-most-of-a-trip/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/goodbye-stockholm-or-parhaps-au-revoir-how-to-make-the-most-of-a-trip/ For the last few months I have been living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. It is a genuinely pretty city with a unique character.Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:58:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/welcome-to-blogger/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/welcome-to-blogger/This Sunday when I tried to write a new post, I found, horror of horrors that my site was down! After being a loyal customer of 1and1 for years, they had disabled my…Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:06:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/dryness-for-cloud-formation-environments/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/dryness-for-cloud-formation-environments/AWS Cloud Formation opens up many possibilities in terms of creating re-usable infrastructure.Sat, 06 Jun 2015 23:14:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/towards-immutable-infrastructure/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/towards-immutable-infrastructure/Building a computing platform that allows developers to focus on the application and business problems is seen as one of the key ingredients in modern technology…Sun, 17 May 2015 12:22:00 GMTCodeSunday BlogUpgrade Digitalhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/suspension-setup-for-2006-triumph-daytona-675/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/suspension-setup-for-2006-triumph-daytona-675/[caption id="" align="alignright" width="520"] Two 'old bikes' - one new to me...[/caption] For those who don't know I love riding motorbikes and in the last couple of…Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:21:00 GMTMotorbikehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-three-ps-of-a-good-business-partner/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-three-ps-of-a-good-business-partner/There has been much written about how many co-founders are best and what the ideal number of co founders is.Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:47:00 GMTInspirationStartUpSunday BlogUpgrade Digitalhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/schema-org-naming-frustration/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/schema-org-naming-frustration/Standards are a great thing but some times they lead to having to make some silly compromises. Take the schema.org event.Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:45:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/openhack-3/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/openhack-3/As part of trying to learn some new technology and approaches I am going to OpenHack #3 with the objective of discussing and hacking on either: Time series monitoring…Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:47:00 GMTCodeInspirationhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/travel-needs-an-upgrade/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/travel-needs-an-upgrade/Over the last year I have been working as a contract CTO and one of the clients was in the travel sector, a London based hotel chain.Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:33:00 GMTCodeStartUpTravelUpgrade Digitalhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/could-using-bleeding-edge-tech-be-the-best-way-to-attract-talent/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/could-using-bleeding-edge-tech-be-the-best-way-to-attract-talent/It seems that the ruby language was the tool of choice if you wanted to work on the new and shiny. It may be that Ruby isn't the new shiny thing though.Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:49:00 GMTCodeStartUphttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/developer-goal-1-dry-ness/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/developer-goal-1-dry-ness/DRYness may be a design pattern you have heard of. If not; we are talking about Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY).Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:12:00 GMTCodeStartUpSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/adding-uuid-column-to-a-statement-mysql-replicated-database/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/adding-uuid-column-to-a-statement-mysql-replicated-database/UUIDs can be a very nice alternative to Auto IDs for keys in database tables but there is one problem with them when using statement based mysql replication.Sat, 10 May 2014 17:01:00 GMTCodehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/protostore-uuid-storage-under-mysql/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/protostore-uuid-storage-under-mysql/Over the last year or so using ProtoStore to handle object serialisation has saved me a huge amount of time and countless SQL related bugs.Sat, 10 May 2014 13:11:00 GMTCodeGitHubhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/a-sad-sad-day-indeed-bye-bye-bmx/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/a-sad-sad-day-indeed-bye-bye-bmx/Unfortunately I am going to have to sell my BMX. Since I moved I have found it harder to find somewhere like the awesome dirt jump track in Hackney.Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:31:00 GMTBMXhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/blues-saxophone-lessons/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/blues-saxophone-lessons/I have been listening to more blues than jazz recently and started to hanker to play some on the saxophone. As usual, the first place to start was YouTube.Sun, 01 Dec 2013 19:34:00 GMTSaxophoneSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/getting-back-into-android/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/getting-back-into-android/This week I am trying to get started on an android demo of the Click Date Love site.Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:55:00 GMTAndroidCodeDateInspirationStartUpSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/startup-founders-crisis-of-confidence/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/startup-founders-crisis-of-confidence/The chances are that if you have ever tried to do something totally new to you, like starting your own company, you have had to find away of dealing with your own fear…Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:26:00 GMTInspirationSiteMorphStartUpSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/protubuf-persistence-for-fun-and-profit/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/protubuf-persistence-for-fun-and-profit/Note: This post is about the recently open sourced proto store project as part of a SiteMorph Open Source initiative.Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:03:00 GMTOpenSourceStartUpSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/falling-down/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/falling-down/The last week has presented a lot of challenges not least being knocked off my motorbike, financial issues and a heavy crash on my BMX.Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:30:00 GMTBMXMotorbikehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/time-to-train-coaching-for-saxophone/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/time-to-train-coaching-for-saxophone/As I mentioned in a previous post, I have started to learn the Saxophone as it was a long time ambition.Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:04:00 GMTInspirationSaxophonehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/track-day-at-rockingham-international-motorbike-circuit-with-nolimits/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/track-day-at-rockingham-international-motorbike-circuit-with-nolimits/This weekend for my birthday I finally managed to get along to a track day. At the last minute I managed to find a place on a NoLimits track day at www.rockingham.co.uk…Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:08:00 GMTInspirationMotorbikeSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/its-time-for-a-little-music-picking-up-the-alto-saxophone/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/its-time-for-a-little-music-picking-up-the-alto-saxophone/Today I finally started to learn the Saxophone. It has been a desire to learn the Saxophone for a long time.Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:29:00 GMTSaxophoneSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/improving-image-layout-with-jquery/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/improving-image-layout-with-jquery/I recently decided to start pushing more of my code onto GitHub to help other people speed up.Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:03:00 GMTCodeDateGitHubOpenSourcehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/startup-risk-management-mitigate-the-cost-of-failure/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/startup-risk-management-mitigate-the-cost-of-failure/I recently had a really nice chat with some old colleagues on the subject of the 'risk of running a startup'.Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:00:00 GMTInspirationSiteMorphStartUpSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/motorbikes-are-the-way-forward-yes-i-am-looking-at-you-camden-council/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/motorbikes-are-the-way-forward-yes-i-am-looking-at-you-camden-council/This weekend while at the MotoGP with my GF, she took the chance to have a free bike training taster session provided by Get On motobike training.Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:17:00 GMTMotorbikehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/what-would-you-do-with-20-million-dollars/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/what-would-you-do-with-20-million-dollars/This month (September edition) of Wired UK focused on inspiration. I must admit that my pile of unread wired magazines was starting to get out of hand.Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:58:00 GMTInspirationStartUphttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-problem-with-second-hand-vehicles/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-problem-with-second-hand-vehicles/I recently purchased an 'old' FZ6 Fazer. Old, in this case being a 2005 model. I noticed a few minor bumps when I bought it but couldn't have noticed some of the other…Sun, 28 Jul 2013 12:42:00 GMTMotorbikehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/time-to-try-wordpress/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/time-to-try-wordpress/For quite a while I have been letting my personal site slip. In an effort to increase the amount of bloging I manage to get done I have decided to go for a non-technical…Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:25:00 GMTSunday Bloghttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/site-morph-at-silicon-milk-roundabout/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/site-morph-at-silicon-milk-roundabout/After what seemed like a short afternoon presenting at Silicon Milk Roundabout I am left with a few feelings I would like to share: Again I was impressed by the…Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:05:00 GMTRecruitmentSiteMorphhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/php-the-only-choice-for-front-end-development/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/php-the-only-choice-for-front-end-development/Is it the only option? In a recent chat with a ex-colleague we were discussing how hard it might be to find a front end developer who can also use Java.Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:18:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/why-i-am-giving-up-my-day-job-to-run-a-technology-start-up/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/why-i-am-giving-up-my-day-job-to-run-a-technology-start-up/As some of you know I have been working on a new idea, a website called SiteMorph.Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:10:00 GMTSiteMorphhttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/is-technical-debt-the-pinocchios-nose-of-software-engineering/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/is-technical-debt-the-pinocchios-nose-of-software-engineering/Technical debt seems like the Pinocchio's nose of software engineering; the ‘lie’ that something is finished perpetuates and causes it to multiply in size.Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:12:00 GMTCodehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-art-of-refuctoring/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/the-art-of-refuctoring/I recently saw @jasongorman present at JaxLondon on refuctoring. Unlike refactoring you try and reduce the readability of code to make you indispensable to your…Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:14:00 GMTCodehttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/open-source-accessibility-testing-library/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/open-source-accessibility-testing-library/Website testing and accessibility have been interests of mine for a while and over the last couple of months I have been supporting the web accessibility testing…Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:17:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/back-at-the-yoke/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/back-at-the-yoke/Last weekend I finally got around to taking a flying lesson that I was given for my birthday last year.Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:19:00 GMThttps://www.damienallison.com/writing/learning-to-turn-with-the-california-superbike-school/https://www.damienallison.com/writing/learning-to-turn-with-the-california-superbike-school/A couple of weeks ago I took a training course with the California Superbike School. Before arriving I had some apprehensions but they were quickly dismissed.Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:16:00 GMT