Sunday Blog
23 posts
2021
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…
3 min
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…
6 min
2017
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.
1 min
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.
2 min
2016
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.
1 min
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.
1 min
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…
2 min
2015
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.
3 min
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.
1 min
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.
1 min
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…
1 min
Mauritius Day 2: Discovering Kite Surfing Nirvarna and Testing Snorkelling Kit
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.
1 min
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…
3 min
2014
2013
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.
1 min
Getting Back Into Android
This week I am trying to get started on an android demo of the Click Date Love site.
5 min
Startup Founder's 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…
2 min
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.
4 min
Track Day at Rockingham International Motorbike Circuit with NoLimits Track Days
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…
5 min
It's 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.
1 min
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'.
3 min
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…
1 min