A semi interesting story from El Reg caught my eye this afternoon – a Woman working in New Zealand was fired for typing emails in all caps and using a red font.
She was later found to have been the victim of unfair dismissal (and given that no warnings were issued I personally agree with the findings of the tribunal) but leaving aside the finer specifics of the story I have to agree with the sentiment.
I have to say I’m impressed, something that doesn’t happen all that often in the cut throat world of software provision.
I’ve just pre-ordered my copy of the latest OSX release Snow Leopard
Hi my name is Rob and I’m paranoid.
Actually let me quantify that – Hi my name is Rob and I’m a paranoid developer. I don’t mean that I spend my days imagining the worst scenarios under which my applications can fail or wondering if my clients are talking about me behind my back. No, I’m paranoid in the simplest sense – I don’t trust technology.
In the sphere of web application development, technology moves incredibly quickly and new libraries, classes and “concepts” are popping up daily. I can remember, without having to cast my mind back too far, the first time I heard the phrase AJAX in relation to web development (rather and toilet cleaning or Greek mythology).
There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the HTML5 project at the moment and, ignoring the fact that I can never pass up an opportunity for a pun in a post title, I felt sufficiently opinionated on the matter to warrant posting my thoughts. As ever, anyone wishing to question my credentials or right to comment on this subject would do well to remember that I’ve been working on, in and around the web since 1995 and, whilst I’m certainly not considered one of the key speakers on the subject of markup languages I certainly have enough practical experience to justify the points laid out below.
I live, work and play in a world of flexible computing, multiple OS platforms, modern media players and downloadable video content. All of these mean I also live in file system hell.
For as long as I can remember, there has only been a single file system that will reliably allow for interoperability between different operating systems, media players and systems. That file system is the now antiquated FAT family (most recently FAT 32).
If there is something daunting about a blank page then that fear can be multiplied ten fold when the blank page is the first in the book.
This is not the first time I’ve written online. It’s not the first blog I’ve started. It is, however, the first blog I’ve started that has a focus; a goal which is to be worked toward. Nothing so crass as monetisation (although that may come in time) but rather the desire to build something that is valuable to others as a resource, something that will become a talking point and a forum for discussion of ideas.
