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After a few years of putting it off I’ve finally got round to reading Clean Code by Uncle Bob. I’m glad I did. It’s one of a handful of books that regularly appears on lists of must read programming books. Why do I like this book? The main reason is... [Read More]

I’ve been meaning to read Peopleware ever since I heard read about it on Joel Spolsky’s blog a few years ago. It was written by two software development project managers who came to the realisation that “the social complexities on most of the projects we’d known simply dwarfed any real... [Read More]

What makes a good software developer? I've been thinking about this question quite a lot in the past few years, even more so recently since I've been involved in interviewing candidates. Many people with much larger brains than myself have written about this, but here's my take. Knowledge and experience are... [Read More]

At work we recently switched from using SVN to Git and GitHub. There are many advantages but there's one in particular I want to talk about. Using TeamCity you can automatically build all pull requests. This is incredibly useful as it ensures only code that compiles successfully and passes all unit... [Read More]

I've made a game for iPhone, it's called Rebounder. This is a series of blog posts about it.I've made a gameWhy?How?Some of the challengesWhat did I learn?It works in my headBefore starting Rebounder I came up with a few other game ideas and made a few prototypes. Each one was great... [Read More]