I wanted to say a quick thank you to Emak Mafu for organising the FLUG in the pub this week. If you are serious about Flex and want to meet like minded individuals, then the FLUG in the pub is THE place to go!
Watch this space!
What started out as an amusing observation seems to have gathered the tiniest bit of momentum, to which this post may add. I rather flipantly recounted the story of the inflatable programmer in a previous post and thought nothing more of it. Well, after monitoring my web traffic today I discovered that it has been googled randomly by someone in Germany. More »
You can now contact me live via this website using the Live Chat link in the navigation bar, or clicking here.
As programmers we’ve all been there. You’re working on a particularly tricky bug and for some reason you just can’t figure out what’s going wrong, so you call over one of your colleagues in the grim hope that they may be able to help you solve your problem. More »
As much as I have enjoyed the freedom of working on my own projects, the sporadic nature of payment and the huge overhead of writing specifications and proposals does take the fun out a little. For now, I am going to do some slightly more consistent work by taking on a contract at a large company in the Netherlands. More »
My Résumé is a rather pretty looking document in Word format, but recruitment agents and potential employers have often expressed disdain toward the tabulated nature of my art 
(see the quote below from a source that will remain anonymous)
** And could you please detabulate the CV – It’s a major pain in the [#$!] for my data extraction tool when converting your CV into its database…..
Wrestle no longer my friends, I have created an online version of my CV/Résumé which should be relatively easy to cut and paste into your systems.
How often do you find yourself having to explain exactly what Adobe Flex is to people? Thankfully, I have the pleasure of talking to a lot of recruitment agents regarding Flex roles, but sometimes they don’t yet know what it is. To solve the problem, and to save both myself and agents some time, I have added a permanent link in the “Navigation” section on the left. Alternatively, you can access it here.
To publish or not to publish, that is the question! As a programmer I often feel wary about sharing my hard work with the world for no apparent reward. This, bolstered by the fact that people I generally work for don’t want me to share my work either, makes me feel even more nervous. That said, the purpose of this site is to be generous and show off my abilities as much as possible. When I am feeling selfish about my code, I often remind myself of the inspiring Kato Wulf (the creator of Zentrack) and the huge amount of graft he put in for the love of his project. Obviously, I have great respect for people like Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds too, but Kato is much closer to [my virtual] home. More »