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A Software Practitioner Still Practising: Carbon - the EU's chance to shine
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising. Maybe, but I need lots of it. Friday, 17 January 2014. Carbon - the EU's chance to shine. I am really concerned that we may be causing irreversible and harmful climate change. While there is no conclusive proof that humankind is behind global warming, the evidence against us is stacking up more and more heavily. Avaaz is publishing an ad in the key Brussels paper today calling on Barroso to follow the science. If supported by tens of thousands of e-mail messa...
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising: January 2014
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising. Maybe, but I need lots of it. Friday, 17 January 2014. Carbon - the EU's chance to shine. I am really concerned that we may be causing irreversible and harmful climate change. While there is no conclusive proof that humankind is behind global warming, the evidence against us is stacking up more and more heavily. Avaaz is publishing an ad in the key Brussels paper today calling on Barroso to follow the science. If supported by tens of thousands of e-mail messa...
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising: October 2012
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising. Maybe, but I need lots of it. Wednesday, 17 October 2012. Doomed to oblivion: a very promising cure for cancer. Read about research by Professors Justyna Leja and Magnus Essand. At the time of writing, the campaign to crowdsource. The necessary funding has been running for almost two weeks, with a further four to go - but less than 10% of the total has been raised so far. This needs a massive push now! Please alert your friends. Links to this post. Blogs by some ...
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising: February 2015
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising. Maybe, but I need lots of it. Saturday, 14 February 2015. The end of FM Radio? A matter which concerns me greatly at the moment is the impending switch from FM to DAB radio, which could happen in the UK as soon as 2016. In 2013, communications minister Ed Vaizey announced a postponement of the digital switchover to "after 2015", following public pressure. DAB is not suitable for reception in a moving car. There is a random digitisation delay, meaning that the "pi...
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising: February 2012
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising. Maybe, but I need lots of it. Sunday, 19 February 2012. Respect to my daughter Ruth for deciding to give up meat and dairy products for Lent. Her reasons are explained in her blog. And she promises to post a series of mouthwatering recipes there. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). London, United Kingdom. A software practitioner since 1980, I have been involved with the British Computer Society. And particularly its Software Practice Advancement.
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising: The end of FM Radio?
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising. Maybe, but I need lots of it. Saturday, 14 February 2015. The end of FM Radio? A matter which concerns me greatly at the moment is the impending switch from FM to DAB radio, which could happen in the UK as soon as 2016. In 2013, communications minister Ed Vaizey announced a postponement of the digital switchover to "after 2015", following public pressure. DAB is not suitable for reception in a moving car. There is a random digitisation delay, meaning that the "pi...
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising: Simple, secure way to share a git repository
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising. Maybe, but I need lots of it. Wednesday, 15 October 2014. Simple, secure way to share a git repository. First install yourself a git command-line client if you have not done so yet (see http:/ git-scm.com/downloads. You already have a local git repository called "test-repo", which you want to share. Your local git repositories are under %HOMEDRIVE% %HOMEPATH% git. Your shared git repositories are going to be under myserver myshare git. Cd %HOMEPATH% git test-repo.
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising: February 2013
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising. Maybe, but I need lots of it. Wednesday, 6 February 2013. Free Security Engineering textbook. Ross Anderson of Cambridge has put the second edition of Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems. Online as a free download. His explanation: it's the decent thing to do and. It actually tends to increase sales of the printed book (borne out by sales of the first edition). Music recording industry, please take note! Links to this post.
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising: August 2011
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A Software Practitioner Still Practising. Maybe, but I need lots of it. Wednesday, 10 August 2011. Generate test data for Java development easily. A colleague has just pointed out the release of Andy Gibson's DataFactory library. As a Maven artifact. It generates arbitrarily long lists of random names and addresses, dates, date ranges (with arbitrary constraints), random selections from lists, numbers, strings, Internet addresses etc. etc. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).