Software Development
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Building A Chat App With Codename One Part 5
The chat UI is what we’ve been working at and in todays post we are going to build exactly that!…
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On programming in the summer
In the summer my training and consulting business gets quiet. That allows me to take some holiday and to pursue…
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Procedure-Like Functions in PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL
PostgreSQL does not support stored procedures in the sense that a database such as Oracle does, but it does support…
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Increasing complexity one entity at a time
While working on one of our internal tools, I decided to make a small comprise and not follow my own…
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Unix: Redirecting stderr to stdout
I’ve been trying to optimise some Neo4j import queries over the last couple of days and as part of the…
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Using YAML over the network
Overview There is a number of popular text based protocols for exchanging data over the network. These include XML, FIX,…
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Sed: Using environment variables
I’ve been playing around with the BBC football data set that I wrote about a couple of months ago and…
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A Software Engineer As a High-Level Government Adviser
Two months ago I took the job of adviser to the cabinet of the deputy prime minister of my country…
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Some thoughts about yagni
Yagni means “You Aren’t Gonna Need It”. This is a phrase used many times to refuse the development of some…
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