So, this is what I’ve done so far at RBS: – written a guide to implementing JUnit and Cactus with test-driven development – set up my dev environment to connect to CICS/COBOL on the ZOS mainframe – read a thousand pieces of documentation Next week: – implement CICS adapters – finish my Ant scripts to [...]
Started my new contract on Monday. Good fun so far, championing XP and test-driven development, as well as mentoring junior developers. Good to be a code poet again :) Very restrictive environment though; limited net access and no MSN…
Today would have been Tim’s 27th birthday. In another world, about now I’d be picking up the phone to give him a call, hoping that I woke him up with a hangover :) Think I’ll call Dad and Lucy instead.
So, what’s been happening here? A number of things. Here we go: Cath’s 30th birthday has been and gone. She had the usual mountain of gifts (though unfortunately a little restrained in scope – she’s got a raincheck on the diamonds) in the morning before her birthday massage at Origins and a quuck trup out [...]
Today I passed my Sun certification exam. W00t. It was a lot harder than the practice tests, but I got through it OK. Next, Sun Web Component Developer and/or the Architect exam – but those can wait until after uni exams in September.
From the deparment of irony: apparently someone (I wonder) has been casting aspersions about my involvement (or not, as fact would have it) with my friend Rob’s company QUISS amongst others. You know, while you were hunched over your keyboard typing my name into Google with one hand and whacking off at the thought of [...]
All please note: I am in the process of changing my email address to james[at]radsy.com and am accepting mail on both this address and my old address james[at]imperiumglobal.com until October. You’ve got plenty of time, but why not change your address book entry now so you don’t forget? The reason is threefold: firstly, spam minimisation. [...]
A netizen by the name of Mike has informed me of a curious fact: that a quite successful US band got their name from an automatic hotel similar to that described on my blog here. Who would have thought that anyone outside my immediate family and vexatious litigants would actually read this rubbish? Anyways, the [...]
It has come to my attention that certain people have been following this blog, hoping to pick up dirt for a dispute involving my employer. Guys, if the best case you can make is based on the personal (and not always objective or accurate) opinions on this site, you’ve not really got much to go [...]
there will come a day when all I remember is sadness
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