I joined Instaclustr 2 weeks ago as a Managing Engineer. I'm really excited to start working in a new company, but it can be a bit daunting to enter a new community of professionals without understanding the existing culture. What are the existing cultural norms? What are the problems and pain points? Is everyone happy? … Continue reading Exploring Culture Through Questions
What's it like to for an experienced developer to learn the latest JavaScript tooling from scratch in 2019? It's not pretty. The Goal At QA Chef, we want to build systems that are: modular (strong cohesion, loose coupling, well designed components) simple and easy to maintain or rewrite (we'd like to keep our options open … Continue reading Building a JavaScript CI/CD Pipeline
I’m studying Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments on Coursera. These are my revision notes for weeks 2. My notes for the the previous week are at: How to Spot an Argument. How to Identify an Argument Argument Markers Definition of an argument: a series of sentences, statements or propositions, where some are the premises and there … Continue reading How to Untangle an Argument
I’m studying Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments on Coursera. These are my revision notes for weeks 1. The Nature of Argument Why arguments matter The course is going to focus on a particular type of thinking, namely reasoning. Arguments are a way to express reasons. If you can formulate good arguments, you can have … Continue reading How to Spot an Argument
Well, I finally took the plunge. I've left my old job at {{SwissBank}}, and have joined a technology startup: QAChef. I'm incredibly excited by this move. QAChef is a very small but interesting company that I believe will make a huge impact in a niche business (commercial catering). Why this move? Well... Just over a … Continue reading Goodbye Banking, Hello Catering
This is the third post in the Serverless from Scratch series. The previous post on this topic is Serverless from Scratch: The Static Website. As mentioned in my previous post, the domain attentiontodetail.com.au was already taken. I had not response from my queries about buying the domain, so Vince and I had a talk about alternative … Continue reading Serverless from Scratch: Setting up DNS
This is the second post in the Serverless from Scratch series. The previous posts on this topic is Serverless from Scratch: First Steps. As mentioned in my last post, the first thing I want to do is set up a static website. Later on I will add functionality to read, display and update the calendar, … Continue reading Serverless from Scratch: The Static Website
For a while now, I've wanted to learn more about Serverless computing. After following @swardley and @PaulDJohnston for a number of years, I feel there's a lot there for me to pick up on - or at least to be able to hold a conversation at a cocktail party. At the moment I know practically zero about how … Continue reading Serverless from Scratch: First Steps
I love Hamcrest. I've been my first choice library for writing assertions in tests for many years. I know that there's other alternatives (such as JUnit assertions, or AssertJ), but I've always preferred the literate style and composability of Hamcrest. Some time in early October 2018, I was in a discussion with a colleague about … Continue reading The Revivification of Hamcrest
This is a follow on from my previous post Australia Diary: First 2 Weeks. After living in England for the last 18 years, I finally returned to Oz with my wife and 2 youngest children 6 weeks ago. This is a bit of a public diary of the my personal happenings and observations (no tech content … Continue reading Australia Diary: First 6 Weeks
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