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by pengo 8y ago
If you can cope with living in a walled garden, replace all your devices with Apple products.
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by pengo 8y ago
Google will capture your data whether you're a paying customer of not. They will tell you they capture "some data" to personalise their service and make your life more convenient. In reality, they capture everything they can
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by pengo 8y ago
Ten years ago I was called in to remediate a new web application which had been subcontracted to an Indian development company. The PHP developers who'd put it together evidently didn't know about classes, and each page in the app
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by pengo 8y ago
The most reliable estimate is for work you've already done and documented. Fifteen years ago I wrote my own timesheet system where entries can be directly linked to code changes. When I have to estimate I can interrogate this to get co
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by pengo 8y ago
My main input streams are an RSS reader and Twitter, both on a dedicated device. The RSS reader has a "Read later" queue and I add articles to that. From Twitter I click the link to open a browser tab directly. One of my last task
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by pengo 9y ago
Bear in mind this is government contracting in New Zealand. You're welcome to contact me if that's still relevant: leigh at else dot co dot nz will do the trick.
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by pengo 9y ago
I have my own software development company. My clients use a purpose-built framework for managing funding applications and grants online. As a sole operator my workload varies: when I add a new client, customisations can keep me at full cap
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by pengo 10y ago
I started developing in Delphi after Delphi 1 came out, have worked in Java and C++ along the way, but I've been largely a LAMP stack web developer for the last ten years. I've looked at the code output from various Delphi web bui
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by pengo 17y ago
Yes yes yes! Once again the astute Mr Graham slices through conventional thinking. I've received a standard reaction to new ideas all my life. In the early seventies I went looking for a sound system with dual cassettes ... "why would anybo
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by pengo 18y ago
I think this is spot-on Mr G. I wrote a similar blog recently, although targeted more broadly than just IT: http://www.aliveworld.com/members/pengo01/blog/archive/2008/...