Kind Acts of Randomness

For those that attended the Google Go Tutorial at linux.conf.au here is the link to the podcast interview that I did the week before the conference. Hope you find it useful. For those interest in Go that live in Brisbane we are hoping to do a session on GO very soon - watch this space.

http://www.codingbynumbers.com/2011/01/coding-by-numbers-episode-20-interview.html

We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.

I did a short lightning talk about podcasting and codingbynumbers.com. I was talk number 7. I must apologize on behalf of my laptop for completely screwing up Pete Leong's talk at number 6! You can find the full list of talks here

My first attempt at a talk at a conference, hopefully I will get better with more practice.

You can find the slide for the talk here on slideshare.

Happiness is a continuous creative activity

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

Things change... but stay the same. Had a great week in Sydney this week. It's been a couple of years since I've been back (that was for a conference and I didn't see much) and 6 years since I lived and worked here properly. Living in Queensland I'm so used to seeing change all around me.... whether it's roads, new buildings or just shops and cafes changing hands a lot. [Read More]

We've had a couple of Subversion outages recently. As usual, development ground to a halt. People couldn't update their projects, couldn't get the history - we shelved some changes in Intellij for checkin later in the day... in short a pain we could live without. Such is life with centralised version control. Since the advent of bitbucket I've been using Mercurial a lot for my own projects, so thought why not try it at work as a fallback for when subversion is down. [Read More]

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel, Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Tomorrow is the last day of the year, and also my last day of work for a month. It's a long story as to why I am off for another month, but I'm planning on using the time wisely - well that is the plan anyway! So here's my plan - I'm writing it down here so that I might actually stand a chance of sticking to it: [Read More]