Product-driven, polyglot software engineer. I've spent over two decades working at every stage of the software development life-cycle, in a variety of roles and using a plethora of languages and platforms. My software interests include Ruby, Elixir, relational databases, Behavior-Driven Development, requirements management and agile methods.
As well as an avid reader of anything on software development, quantum mechanics and Iain M.Banks novels, I love writing blog posts and speaking at conferences, having done so at several national and international software-related conferences. I have published two books: "Managing Software Requirements the Agile Way", came out of a need to improve some of the entrenched practices in managing requirements in the agile world. "The Professional ScrumMaster Guide" provides guidance on getting certified and applying Scrum pragmatically.
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Apr 14, 2020 · 6 min read · title: Career advice for junior developers published: true description: tags: codenewbie, beginners, career, programming I had a nice chat this morning with our new intern, who's due to start working with us this summer. One of the things he asked m...
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Jan 14, 2019 · 8 min read · Our assignment Our company has just gone on a huge recruitment spree and has just hired 100,000 new employees. The HR department has sent us a spreadsheet with the employee details, asking us to save them in the company staff database. After having a...
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Dec 21, 2018 · 3 min read · FizzBuzz is a simple kids game, often used as a test at programming interviews. It goes like this: "Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of 3 print “Fizz” instead of the number and for multiples of 5 print “Buzz”...
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Sep 11, 2018 · 2 min read · A couple of my Python colleagues tried to impress me today with Python's named slices feature. The way it works is like that: s = list('helloworld!') => ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd', '!'] WORLD = slice(5, 10) s[WORLD] => ['w'...
Join discussionAug 16, 2018 · 3 min read · title: The top 5 programming books of all time published: true description: The best programming books of all time tags: book, programming, software What makes a programming book truly great? IMHO, two things: Content quality Content delivery Ther...
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