Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
Martin Fowler has recently published an article, “Privacy Protects Bothersome People”, about privacy’s value in providing protection for people who are agitating for change. It’s a great counter to the...
Read ArticleMobile Asia Expo is the Asian arm of GSMA’s Mobile World Congress run in Barcelona every February. I missed out on MWC this year due to a very busy project,...
Read ArticleIn a previous life, at an R&D engineering company, there was a comprehensive culture of code review. I saw three different approaches across three teams while I was there. The...
Read ArticleFor a recent mobile project we used XMPP. It worked really well and I’m keen to use it again. But, in the process I learnt quite a lot about it....
Read ArticleThanks to the mobile explosion, for the first time in 15 years, as an industry, we’re writing rich, complex, stateful client applications. But I don’t believe we’re yet looking at...
Read ArticleMy favourite app on my iPad is easily Flipboard. In fact, stop reading and install it right now, if you haven’t already. There are Android and iPhone apps as well....
Read ArticleCalatrava has a reasonably complex build system to enforce its opinions. One of these opinions is that the environment you’re building for should be configurable. You set the environment by...
Read ArticleThere’s a new release of Calatrava available: v0.6.0. Update it the way you’d update any of your other gems.
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