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Sounie

  1. Heading to Southend Air Festival. 2:31 AM May 27th via web
  2. I hope Norway win tonight. ... Eurovision 9:03 AM May 26th via web
  3. Innovative way of teaching kids computer science concepts: csunplugged.org As featured on BBC Click 1:30 AM May 25th via web
  4. Pub quiz tonight, might have to switch to cider given the London heat. 10:43 AM May 24th via web
  5. @WendyHurrell Do you get rain forecasts from Ralph cleaning behind his ears? #BBCWeatherSecretsRevealed 3:12 AM May 23rd via web in reply to WendyHurrell
  6. Job search mission accomplished. 8:40 AM May 17th via web
  7. Sure enough, DNS indicates they're on the same server. 4:08 AM May 17th via web
  8. Today I was reminded of a multi-tenant ecommerce project that I led - yourcat.co.uk and yourdog.co.uk look so similar. 4:08 AM May 17th via web
  9. Nokia catering for emerging markets with cheap phones. stuff.co.nz/technology/gad… 4:56 PM May 16th via web
  10. Google exposing "Knowledge Graph". My expectation is that this will be like auto-generated mind maps visualising relations to search terms. 4:50 PM May 16th via web
  11. Interesting mix of technical tests for next role. Some insist on using third party library, others insist on using no third part library. 11:07 AM May 16th via web
  12. Heading out to #LJC developer session. Glad I bought a new umbrella this morning. 9:51 AM May 15th via web
  13. FizzBuzz again. 10:47 AM May 11th via web
  14. Cassandra compactions tuning - sounds similar to decisions around Java garbage collection. 3:34 AM May 11th via web
  15. @WendyHurrell I reckon Liz would love to have a go at presenting for London. 5:25 PM May 10th via web in reply to WendyHurrell
  16. Attending tech talks can be tough on the body - 3 events involving beer and pizza in the last week. 12:02 PM May 10th via web
  17. Recurring theme with Nosql - test your db with large volume of data. Just like SQL, no silver bullet. 3:26 AM May 10th via web
  18. #prognosql Slightly off topic, but...did anyone pick up my umbrella yesterday? 3:04 AM May 10th via web