Category: SoftwareEngineering

  • First steps in a new software project

    This week I started a brand new project. This time it’s the start of product development, rather than just an internal project to get something running. And it really is new, so everyone is new and we’re setting up everything from scratch. So this is my list of things to go from nothing to a…

  • Retrospective on an agile project

    Yesterday I finished my 5 week project. I still can’t believe it’s been 5 weeks, it’s gone so fast.I wrote a bit about it a couple of weeks ago. And now that it’s finished I wanted to reflect a little on how it went. 

  • Automation isn’t free, and change isn’t either.

    When I started this blog I intended it to be about both woodworking and software engineering. It’s pretty clear that my focus has been woodworking, and more specifically woodturning.However, that’s not to say I’m not busy thinking about software engineering, I just don’t often think to write about it.

  • Getting call stack tracing out of navit (or any C application)

    This evening I’ve been working on something I’d been thinking about for a little while. As part of my trying to get involved in navit I discovered that I understand fairly little able C and very little about how navit works. 

  • Participating in OSS

    Fairly recently I went through the process of being allowed to participate in an open source project ‘Navit’Working for a big company I have to just make sure there are no potential contamination issues. Very boring, but done now.

  • Agile is..doing only as much as you need

    This weekend I discovered what I consider to be a massive design flaw in my Mazda3. The problem that lead to this discovery is actually something that has happened a few times, and I believed it to be an electrical fault. I was happier in that belief.

  • Conflicting interests

    Last week and this week saw me do two different things which reflect the two parts of my interests, my computer geek side and my woodworking side. 

  • Mobile devices and dataplans

    A few more weeks with the Nokia 770 and the os2008 hacker edition… I mentioned before that I have updated my trusty internet tablet to the latest hacker edition OS. 

  • Blogging about twitter… I think I’ve finally lost it

    Ok, so it seems a bit weird to blog about Twitter, and indeed to twitter about blogging…  but I thought I’d mention it since I’ve been giving Twitter a go. I

  • Back to the day job

    So after 5 weeks working on an agile project, I have returned to my normal day job. And I’m already feeling the lack of focus is becoming an issue.