Just like all the cool kids are doing, Lana and I spent our saturday evening putting together the Tower Bridge 3d puzzle. Last year we documented our assembly of the Eiffel Tower 3d puzzle, and its subsequent demolition …

In an effort to learn a little about the technology behind today’s blogging platforms, I migrated this blog from Wordpress (php) to Ghost (node.js) at the start of the year. I’ve recently migrated to Jekyll …

For the sake of variation I’ve been writing some of my Scala in Atom. Out of the box support isn’t really there, so the first thing you have to do is to obtain the language-scala package. Atom currently …

This post covers how to customise tag and post paths with the Ghost blogging platform. The background required is a working installation of Ghost 0.4.2, a basic understanding of JavaScript and a decent text editor, say …

I’m considering migrating from Wordpress to Ghost so have them running side by side for a bit: http://oftheoldschool.com (Wordpress) http://andy.stanton.is/writing/ (Ghost) Ghost does not have good media support at …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …