I was out shooting today, putting the x-pro through its paces. No real purpose – meandering around the Portobello Road, shooting stall keepers and tourists alike. I turn for home, walking alongside the westway, when a cyclist zips past. I see him, heading towards me, bring the camera up, track him and *click*. Enough time [...]

Some yak shaving while playing around with Riemann resulted in me creating my first leiningen plugin, lein-gentags. It uses etags based on instructions from Nurullah Akkaya’s original blogpost – perfect for improving navigation of Clojure code in Emacs. Feedback appreciated!

I’ll be running my new talk “Designing For Rapid Release” at a couple of conferences in the first half of this year. First up is the delightfully named Crash & Burn in Stockholm, on the 2nd of March. Then later in May I’ll be at Poznan in Poland for GeeCon 2012. This talk focuses on [...]

On my current client project, in terms of managing configuration of the various environments, I have separated things into two problem spaces – provisioning hosts, and configuring hosts. Part of the reason for this separation is that although targeting AWS, we do need to allow us to support alternative services in the future, but I [...]

I’ll be speaking on the cloud track at JAX London 2011. The talk “Private Cloud, A Convenient Fiction” attempts to puncture some of the FUD on the subject. The nuances between various hosting solutions are many and varied, and don’t suit being put into neat boxes like ‘public’ and ‘private’. When I talk to clients [...]