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…
In day to day life as a systems engineer there aren't too many opportunities to build solutions based purely on theoretical studies or research papers - generally solutions are built for you and you "just" need to make them work, tie up the spaghetti, shave the yak and so on. Entering the world of programming and software development though, a lot of new problems come up that you can find your own…