Me, thinking out loud

Finally catchup on ES6

Sat, 26 Jan 2019 17:28:38 +0100

Overview

I have managed to avoid most of the gnarly details of javascript beyond ES5 for many years. Unfortunately a side project has driven me to finally take it on board. These are my notes, gleaned mostly by reading ES6 In Depth from Jason Orendorff of Mozilla.

I now know enough to be more dangerous.

Learning Bash

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:20:20 +0000

Overview

Historically I'm a Windows developer (C/C++/C#). I've been using more and more Linux tooling and, day by day, the Linux learning is creeping in. A massive sprawling knowledge space, unfamiliar to me. But over and over again there are some basic bash scripting techniques I need, this is them.

Behaviours not Errors

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:53:01 +0100

Overview Recently, I have been thinking about my preference for structured logging (details on this in to-be-written entry). A trivial but significant aspect of this, is that once you have switched to structured logging, markers like INFO, DEBUG, ERROR,… don't help. Simply grouping such a wide range of code paths into these categories is insufficient for any kind of analysis. What is an error? An error is a local failure scenario that you don't currently understand - our continuous improvement process for error handling aims to move all these anomalies in the system from unknown to known.

There are Only 4 reasons to write software

Tue, 23 May 2017 22:56:47 +0100

Reasons to write code;

Make money
Save money
Stay out of jail
For fun

Refactoring with VS Code

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 07:51:11 +0100

Efficient Refactoring

Whilst watching an episode of Francesc Campoy's just for func series I noticed that there was a major feature of VS Code that was going unused. Multiple cursors. This is one of the biggest productivitiy features of modern text editors.

The coding interview

Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:47:35 +0100

The code interview

The interviews I want to write about are specifically face-to-face code interviews. I have interviewed quite a few people over the years and too many of them seem to be going out of their way to fail. So these are my tips on how not to rule yourself out.

It's called Software for a reason

Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:25:46 +0100

Making a change

When making a change to an existing piece of software I think there are broadly 2 options;

Get in and out, change as little as possible
Restructure the code to fit the new requirement

Contact

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 22:32:11 +0100

Best off, start with http://twitter.com/nearlyAdam

About

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 22:27:37 +0100

The Internet home for my thoughts (at least the ones that I am [a] able to capture and [b] willing to share) and possibly projects.

Get ready

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 18:01:48 +0100

New blog

This is attempt N (where N is larger than I'd like) of actually setting up and adding content to a blog and or article based web site.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Straughan, BEng Profile Experienced software development team lead with a solid history of delivering valuable, robust software solutions to clients. A leadership approach that enables teams to deliver together. A development approach to allow continuous delivery of value. Key Skills Team Lead, provide space and direction to enable teams to succeed. Architecture and Design, a wide range of experience from embedded C, Windows device drivers, traditional web sites through to distributed services and event based systems.