Helent.co.uk is launched…
Okay, Helen and I gave it one big final push last night to get the helent.co.uk site launched. I’m going to sleep all through Saturday, I just know it. The site is simple, but fiddling with images and css always takes longer than you original planned for. Such are the woes of web development.
Anyway, [...]
A little bit busy…
I’m a little bit busy at the moment hence the lack of posts. I’m currently working on rolling out a web site for the missus (damned and I thought customers were difficult). Anyway, I plan to get the first cut out over the weekend that will keep her happy.
However, it has not all been [...]
Come on Code Boy, Talk to me!
Why don’t developers document their code? It’s not hard – just tell me what you’ve done. Over the years I’ve come to accept that documentation is just one of those things that is seldom done well on software projects. Even some of the most experienced software teams fail to deliver adequate documentation. “Chill out Cleve…”, [...]
Growth is good, right?
When delivering customer-facing software there is always a tradeoff between business drivers such as time to market, the product’s feature set, etc. and basic software properties such as its quality and integrity. Customers make demands on IT that far exceeds its capacity to deliver in a timely fashion and still preserve the internal quality of its software. Either [...]
Book Review: Founders At Work
I really liked this book. Basically, its a bunch of interviews with founders of some of the greatest technology startups over the last three decades. It includes the likes of Apple, Hotmail, PayPal, Yahoo, Adobe and so on and so forth. For me, a techie born in the UK it was a real eye opener [...]
