Posts

• 16 Aug 2023

  The influence of programming paradigms on development techniques

  I was reading an old paper recently A Requirements-Driven Software Development Methodology by Castro, Kolp and Mylopoulo...
• 13 Jun 2023

  Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s

  I recently saw this toot in Mastodon and I had a good laugh with it. It’s trite, but many older workers in the sof...
• 18 May 2023

  Keep your code simple, Wirth style

  On keeping your code simple (because you know you only write it once, but you maintain it for the rest of your life), th...
• 18 May 2023

  Grace Hopper did not create Cobol

  Republishing something I wrote in lobste.rs some time back about the role of Grace Hopper in the creation of Cobol: Grac...
• 12 May 2020

  Blog Migration

  It took longer than expected, but after some careful planning and making use of the great Oracle cloud free tier I moved...