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Nov 27

“Are recruiters generally all so bad?”

steveLeave a commentthoughtsrecruiters

I have a friend who’s a recruiter. Yes, that can actually happen. I mentioned to him that I’d been contacted by a really annoying recruiter, and he responded with “Can I ask you a serious question? Are ‘they’ generally all Read more

Sep 05

Banks and social engineering – a short story of fail

steveLeave a commentlife, security, Social engineering, thoughtsbanks, fraud, phishing, qr codes, security, theft

The fair is in town, and I need money. Where do I get money from? The bank. I enter the bank. I see a piece of paper loosely stuck to the ATM advertising the bank’s mobile application, and conveniently including Read more

Nov 02

Back to Basics – good comments are targeted comments

steve4 Commentsfundamentals, Software engineering, thoughtsgood practice, software engineering, thoughts

I can’t think of a single person who enjoys writing comments in code. I don’t, my friends and colleagues don’t, and I’m pretty sure there isn’t a meetup group for fans of it. Outside of code that I write for Read more

Sep 30

Harry Potter and the Personal Lesson

steveLeave a commentthoughts, Uncategorizeddevelopment, harry potter, startup

Geek alert. I love the Harry Potter books. I thought they were well-written and cohesive.  You may have read them too, and felt something similar.  What you may not have done – and you can skip to the end otherwise Read more

Sep 29

Shit or get off the pot

steve1 Commentthoughtscrap, ps3, sony

I bought my first Playstation 3 about five years ago, and it was great.  I’m not particularly into games, but it was purchased as a media player and it worked perfectly.  Three years later, the dreaded red light of death Read more

Sep 27

PlayBe Dojo – all seats booked, and ready to go

steveLeave a commentBelgian Play! Framework User Group, play framework, thoughtsdojo, play!, playbe, thoughts

With less than a week to go until the Belgian Play! Framework User Group holds its first coding dojo, all 20 places have now been taken.  I was half-way through a blog post to promote it when person #20 signed Read more

Sep 02

Abandoned blog posts

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I get ideas for blog posts all the time. As you could guess by the number of posts here (currently at 56), the majority are toyed with and then ignored. Here are three that I’ve come up in the last Read more

Aug 10

The value of independence

steveLeave a commentgeneral, thoughtsadvertising, i'm-not-a-shill, independence, reviews, thoughts

Three or four months ago, I received an email from an on-line advertising agency inquiring whether I would be interested in allowing in-article ads on my blog. I thought about it for about a second, and immediately answered with a Read more

Jun 26

Facebook…hmmm

steveLeave a commentthoughtsdata harvesting, facaebook, thoughts

I just read how Facebook changed all e-mail addresses to use their @facebook.com domain. Now, unless I misread something, I seem to recall my information section is about me, and so it’s not really up to them to change it. Read more

Jun 08

Presentations – large and loud, or up-close and personal?

steveLeave a commentthoughtsdevices, presentations

In my previous entry, I mentioned that when the projector failed to function, laptops, tablets and smartphones were used to display the slides instead. When I think of conference presentations, I tend to think of something like this: The scale Read more

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