Technology
11 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…
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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
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.
1 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
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.
1 min
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).
1 min
2015
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.
1 min
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…
1 min
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.
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