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  • Barrier To Entry

    17 Jun 2012

    The greatest advert for being a software developer today is the low – practically non-existent – barrier to entry. Repeated…

  • How I lost, and regained, my coding mojo

    5 May 2012

    For as long as I can remember I’ve been programming and I never seriously thought about doing anything else for…

  • Banking Isn’t Evil

    24 Jan 2012

    I truly believe that banks, or any institution that exists by making trades based on financial instruments, is not inherently…

  • Developing in Remote Teams

    16 Dec 2011

    I don’t need to tell you just how revolutionary the internet and other hi-tech telecoms advances have been in changing…

  • Environmentalism and Amdahl’s Law for the Masses

    12 Oct 2011

    Though Life Beyond Fife is primarily a technology blog this article is for everyone. Absolutely all. I want every single…

  • Carpenters make tables and chairs, not hammers and saws

    16 Sep 2011

    Ok, yes, I know it’s actually furniture makers who make tables and chairs but the title is long enough as…

  • Addenda for Adopting Agile Development

    12 Aug 2011

    Software Development is a strange profession. Coders are often promoted out of development in their thirties at the same time…

  • Developing in the Brown Field

    22 Jul 2011

    A friend and former colleague of mine told me after leaving the company we had both worked at, “I never…

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