This is one of those things that I spent a long time working out the first time, then forgot, then worked out again, then forgot and just worked out
again. So this time round I'm going to blog it in case it's useful to others as well as my future …
I was re-reading my notes today and realized I've done Dr Sophia Frentz a bit of a disservice in
my write up. This was a really good talk on the risks and problems involved with gene sequencing
and electronic heath records.
KiwiCon is the annual hacker conference in Wellington NZ. This year it became KAWAiiCon
to reflect Sput taking over the lead from Metlstorm. Below are the notes I took for the
sessions on Day 1.
These are very much notes to self, but might give others a reminder or a …
When I'm learning a new technology I inevitably overthink it at some point. Good libraries work the way you naively
expect, even if there's some magic under the hood to make that true. There comes a point where I understand enough
about a library to start questioning my naive expectations …
Each year around Christmas I make a set of donations to causes and
organisations that I want to support. I do this all at once, because I
find I'm a lot more deliberate about what causes I support and the
amount I want to donate than I am donating on …
Estimating and Planning and monitoring day to day development is a lot
of what's involved in the job of a team leader. This is the approach I
take to this, I don't claim to have created any of this, rather it's
just the collection of agile methods and tools that …
I recently contributed some introduction to the Gerrit
Project. This included some
screenshots and understandably the project maintainers are concerned
about the overhead of keeping these screenshots up to date. So just for
my own interest I've started looking in to how to automate the
generation of these screenshots. This …
What is the first thing you do at work once you log into your computer?
No really think about it, is it the same thing you were doing a year
ago. I can almost track my career by the changes in what I do first
thing in the morning.
I use Git everyday. I can't imagine using anything else. But I have a
soft spot for Hg. For all the awesome power of Git it feels messy &
complicated. Hg just feels like a cleaner model, a simpler transition,
it's easier to explain and seems like it should just work …
I wanted to be a Linux user since I first heard about it, and over the
years I've made several attempts failed attempts to switch with various
distros, Redhat and Mandrake mainly. All of these started the same way,
I'd create a dual boot, I'd set Linux as the default …