Musings of a Software Engineer

I was in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago and I went to the Cambridge University Press Shop.  Like a good geek I thought I would look at the Computer Science books that were available and see if there was anything of interest.  I was surprised that the shelf was so small, but then I [...]

Better late than never but even Garfield is using a mobilde phone now!!!

Wow has it really been 10 years since the Millennium Bug “hit” the world (or Y2K or Year2000 or armageddon!).  I remember all the news reports about airplanes were going to fall from the skys and Hospital equipment were going to blow up and attack the people they were suppose to be looking after.  I [...]

Every year it always surprises me that when thesnow falls ont the UK the whole country comes to a halt. Maybe I’m getting old and not remembering my younger years but I’m sure itnever use to be this bad! Could itbe the more technology we have the less ability we can cope with [...]

I’ve been looking at setting up an eshop on one of my wordpress accounts and for the downloadable content page for eshop it shows that there is a max upload size.  After alot of hunting around and googling (which I thought might have been easier to find!)
Turns out it was quick an easy find when [...]

I’m a user of a subversion server on a day to day basis and its probably the best free code repository that is out there.  It is fantastic to use and really simple to update and manage using things like Tortoise SVN.
But today I released that our repository had not been tagged to ensure that [...]

What a nightmare… I’ve not really been paying much attention to the 100s of spam comments that I was getting so they had built up to a large amount.  So today I thought I would finally sort them out by just deleting all comments.  I think there was only one good comment anyway.
So I went [...]

Wow its amazing I setup this blog with the intention of posting things to it every week at least once a week.  I think the last time I posted something was about 3 months ago!!! where does the time go.  Well I’m determinded to turn this around in december and attempt to keep an hour [...]

I think I probably need to get out more, two posts about cash machines.
We were out in London a couple of weeks ago and had got to that point of the day needing some more money.  So you would like trying to find a cash machine would be simple.  Well if you know the area [...]

Wow its like buses I don’t post for two weeks and then two come along at once.  There might even be three if I have to rant again about spam comments on blogs (yes I’m still getting hundreds a day!).
Anyway…. user interfaces, it seems to be a thing that computer scientists are not very good [...]