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Why I’m Still Learning Clojure

Last year was C# and Erlang, this year was Clojure thanks in part to the excellent London Clojure Code Dojo. (Bear with me for the next paragraph, and the subjective nature of later bits) Clojure has...

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Fluid In Your Ear: When FluidDB Meets Heavy Metal

(This is based on a 15 minute talk for the London Python Code Dojo – slides available from SlideShare) My interest in FluidDB began earlier this year when I attended a talk by Nicholas Tollervey at the...

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Things to look at in 2011

Before I start on my 2011 list, it’s time for a quick review. My list for 2010 was: Clojure (http://clojure.org/) CouchDB (http://couchdb.apache.org/) Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)...

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Pondering Patterns

It’s been something like 11 or 12 years since I first heard of the book “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”. It was around the time I was beginning to realise there might...

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Software Team Leadership: Safety, Enjoyment, Learning

Back in 2004, I took a sabbatical from software development to pursue my passion for snowboarding. It was a decision that lead to a parallel “career” as a snowboard, and later ski, instructor. Aside...

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PyCon UK 2011

I attended PyCon UK 2011 at the weekend, which was loosely run as an unconference. As I was about to start writing about the conference, I realised I haven’t written anything about PyCon AU last month...

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PHP: One Year On

I try to learn a new programming language each year. In recent years, my bias has been towards a more functional nature with Erlang and Clojure being two very enjoyable and intellectually satisfying...

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It’s Alive!

This blog has been dormant for a few years. This has mainly been down to a lack of time, but also a touch of burnout with writing purely tech-related posts. Since the last blog post I’ve been learning...

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My Political Journey

It seems fitting to be writing something in the lead up to the 2017 election, because my political awakening began thirty years ago during the 1987 general election. My primary school teacher organised...

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PyConUK 2017

“Could you find a conference a bit closer and a bit cheaper?” In 2007, the company I was working for at the time was concerned about the cost to send its four backend developers all the way to...

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