Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Hi everyone, and welcome back to my exceedingly sparse tales of technology adventures! Strap in for an excessively long introduction to this one, it's boring and tedious as hell.
I'll skim over the introduction to the introduction, but like many of you, I've had a gradually growing collection of digital images. Starting in roughly 2001 when my family had a Kodak DC120 1MP Digital Camera (yes, one…
Perhaps a little late in the year to be conducting a personal retrospective on the years past, but I feel at this point I'm starting to wonder about the challenges ahead. The last two to three years I've distinctly changed my career direction from systems engineering, to "DevOps" (whatever that means anymore), to developer. Sure, I'm technically a Computer Scientist by tertiary education standards…
I've mentioned a couple of times that I started reading through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, and even though I've recently been heavily sidetracked by Learning Go I just finished chapter two which dealt with Io.
The book gushes over the language, and I've read a lot of other people's blogs where they seem quite excited about it. In the end I couldn't finish the last exercise, even having a working example to go off. It was just a bit too painful trying to find the right object context, navigate around the strange method syntax and other oddities in the language. Of course, it would be wrong to blame the language, so I'm just going to leave it saying that Io didn't…
As I've previously mentioned, I've been doing a lot of work recently with various aspects of AWS on a daily basis (or close to it). My primary language these days is still Ruby, but I've been labouring through the excellent Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book in the hope I can broaden my horizons somewhat. I'm fairly comfortable with Python, somewhat familiar with Javascript now after playing with…