No Fluff, Plenty Of Stuff
I attended the first European No Fluff, Just Stuff (NFJS)in London today and it was a hoot! Great food. Great people. And plenty of technology around dynamic languages, functional programming, rich internet applications, agile techniques, yada, yada, yada… Thanks to Wendy and crew of SkillsMatter for making it a really enjoyable experience.
Clearly, I have been spending a [...]
Year of the Ruby
Now, I wouldn’t call myself old-fashioned, but tradition is tradition. Every year I commit learning a new (programming) language. This year, is the Year of the Ruby!
I was in my hotel room last night and had 30 minutes to spare. So I googled ‘ruby’ and was not surprised to see that main ruby site http://www.ruby-lang.org is [...]
Agile Customers need Agile Partners
I’ve been looking for an “article” like this for a long time (thanks Seb). It’s funny that it pops up in the gaming industry, but then again gaming is a pretty fluid marketplace.
The article about a company called Remedy Entertainment from Finland that is the maker of Max Payne (and the forthcoming Alan Wake). Remedy are embracing the change [...]
…and Polish!
The heart of Cognifide lives in Poznan, Poland. I have been travelling regularly to Poznan for the last 12 months and have been getting by in the language. A lot of people have told me, “Polish Cleve, damned hard language!”, ”Oooo, I think only Hungarian is harder in Europe”, “Good luck mate, you’re gonna need it”, yada, [...]
No Fluff Just Stuff
Little bit excited because the No Fluff Just Stuff conference is coming to Europe for the first time next week. It’s got a good line up so hope to see you there…
Who is behind Facebook?
In the UK at least, facebook has exploded. At lot of my friends (and not friends ) have started turning up in there. Why? I have no idea. I only registered because I was forced to. I wanted to go out but the organiser put the details on a wall within facebook. How annoying? Anyway, [...]
Architects: Software vs Building
We are currently doing our house up. It is a small-medium size project and as such required an architect to come in design our space. We have learnt a number of things, but let me start by telling you what the typical process is:
customer instructs architect
architect designs your space and creates sketches
architect seeks planning permission [...]
