• Scala, Regex, Apply, String Interpolation and Companion Objects
    Scala, Regex, Apply, String Interpolation and Companion Objects
    Background: I’ve recently had the opportunity to code with Scala for the acceptance tests in some of the AWS projects we’re doing at work. I read more cool stuff about Scala every day and I’m trying to …
  • Cross-Platform Considerations 2
    Cross-Platform Considerations 2
    Since my previous writing on Cross-Platform Considerations, I’ve been looking at setting up automated builds based on git commits. I’ll write something more about this at some point but the gist of it is that …
  • Christmas Hobbying
    Christmas Hobbying
  • Unit Testing and Mocking in C++
    Unit Testing and Mocking in C++
    This post covers my recent experience with unit testing and mocking in C++. By way of an introduction I was a slow convert to Test Driven Development, mostly due to the lack of it in my first couple of jobs. Once you use …
  • Aerobatics
    Aerobatics
    One of my colleagues, Jez, is an accomplished pilot and owner of a Pitts S-2A aerobatic biplane. Last Saturday he was generous enough to take myself, Rama and Mike up for a spin - giving us a quick lesson in basic …
  • What happens when you give software to a professional Tester
    What happens when you give software to a professional Tester
    Lana is a software Tester. I gave her beta 1. This happened:
  • Protest The Hero - Volition
    Protest The Hero - Volition
    I’ve been a fan of Protest The Hero since hearing Fortress some years ago. They’ve recently released a crowd-funded album called Volition which is the heaviest thing I’ve listened to for some time, …
  • GLFW Skeleton
    GLFW Skeleton
    For convenience, I put a skeleton app with a blank GLFW window on github. The README.md contains usage instructions - it’s Mac oriented at the moment because that’s what I’m developing on, and has …
  • Lana Tetris beta 1
    Lana Tetris beta 1
    Lana Tetris has slowly spiralled towards completion and it’s now in a state where it can be tested. There are currently a great many memory leaks because garbage collection has spoiled me. I’m currently …
  • Mutya Keisha Siobhan - Flatline (Acoustic)
    Mutya Keisha Siobhan - Flatline (Acoustic)
    The studio version of Flatline is utterly superb, but this acoustic version highlights the wonderful vocal harmonies even more. It’s simply incredible.

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