You hear a lot about how modern smartphones are 1000s of times more powerful than the NASA computers that sent Apollo to the moon. To be honest, it’s surprising, but you do kind of expect it… But how do those old school beasts match up against something a bit more mundane…a toothbrush for example. Some…
Continuing to push analogies to breaking point…This time with fries! You might have seen a post recently with describing an application as front end, back end and API. Something along these lines: Nice. Elegant. Simple. It provides a convenient way to talk about technology that everyone can relate to….but is it too simplistic? There’s lots…
Recently I was trying to describe the various types of cloud services available for modern IT deployment. Like many, I resorted to an analogy – the ever popular “Pizza as a Service”. However, the more I tried to use it, the more strained it became – my main difficulties were: The elements intuitively thought of…
At a recent team away day, I went a little tangential and decided to do a short segment on teamwork. While I was putting the slides together I was reminded of a classic Internet video from 2005 in which a World of Warcarft guild are planning an attack which goes disastrously….so I used it.
If you’ve got young kids and fancy a UK based holiday, then Bluestone National Park resort is a top destination…
I recently uncovered an exercise book from when I was nine. It contained a “novel” I started writing, but unfortunately never got past chapter one. It’s in fairly tatty condition so I thought I’d add it to the Internet for prosperity. I’ve copied it verbatim so it preserves all the original (bad) punctuation and structure.
The ultimately agile, agile methodology… software development based on my whims and musings…
A report criticising TV comedies for their negative depictions of fathers is at once joyless and opportunistic
A description of the different kinds of headache and what you can do about them…
This graphic depicts the remaining number of years of the earth’s stocks of minerals and fuels.