Thoughts

Work Smarter Not Harder With Your Time Management Logging

Use timesheets? Love them? Hate them? Don't spend longer than your should doing them.

Posted on 19 August 2023

Becoming a Remote Worker - 3 years

How has it been 3 years since we went home?

Posted on 20 March 2023

End of Year Review 2021

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Posted on 31 December 2021

Becoming a Remote Worker - Month 21+

21 Months on and reflecting at Christmas Eve

Posted on 24 December 2021

Becoming a Remote Worker - Month 18+

18 months on with no end in sight ...

Posted on 17 September 2021

Is Dependency Injection Into a Custom Exception a Good Idea?

Investigating whether dependency injection into a custom Exception class a good idea.

Posted on 24 August 2021

Target Typed New Expressions in C# 9 - Are They The Future? Part 2

Recieved some feedback from the previous blog post about Target Typed New Expressions and it made me think.

Posted on 20 July 2021

Target Typed New Expressions in C# 9 - Are They The Future?

Initial thoughts about target typed new expressions in C#9. Are they good? Are they bad? Does "it depend" on the scenario? Let's take a look.

Posted on 13 July 2021

Thoughts and Musings of a Standing Desk 1 Month On

Thoughts and review of the first month of being a standing desk user

Posted on 06 July 2021

Becoming a Remote Worker - 1 Year

1 Year since leaving the office, oh how things have changed ...

Posted on 16 March 2021

How I Approach New Codebases

A tweet asking about how people approach new codebases got me thinking about my own approach so decided to write it down and share.

Posted on 09 February 2021

Becoming a Remote Worker - Month 9+

9 months of remote working, Christmas and how Covid has affected me.

Posted on 27 December 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - Month 6

6 months of remote working and how I have changed

Posted on 16 September 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - Month 4

A reflection of the past 4 months of being a remote worker

Posted on 17 July 2020

Thoughts About Test Driven Development

Thoughts and musings about Test Driven Development, refactoring and how design principles can help with testing

Posted on 14 July 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - Week 16

just get through it

Posted on 07 July 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - Week 15

Up until now remote working had not had to cope with heat, that all changed this week!

Posted on 26 June 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - Week 14

In a blink of an eye week 14 has come and gone!

Posted on 22 June 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - Week 13 Rollercoaster

Full on rollercoaster this week

Posted on 14 June 2020

Buy Me A Coffee

My first donations, feelings and what I purchased.

Posted on 09 June 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 11

What is wrong with the world?

Posted on 31 May 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 10

When hay fever strikes!

Posted on 25 May 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 9

Bit late, but better late than never ...

Posted on 18 May 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 8

Not a good week

Posted on 11 May 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 7

Time has flown by and days have merged together.

Posted on 02 May 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 6

Back at work, resetting personal mental expectations and finding data from the past.

Posted on 25 April 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 5

We've had Easter and been on "holiday"

Posted on 19 April 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 4

Tough week but Happy Easter

Posted on 12 April 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 3

Thoughts and musings at the end of the 3rd week

Posted on 05 April 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 2

Looking back at the second week and how I have had to adjust.

Posted on 29 March 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - End of Week 1

End of week 1; I've survived!

Posted on 20 March 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - Leaving The Office

Leaving the office to become a remote worker; initial thoughts and feelings.

Posted on 16 March 2020

Becoming a Remote Worker - Preparation

As the potential for remote working is a possibility, the preparation for anything is king.

Posted on 13 March 2020

Why there is no such thing as Greenfield development

Thoughts and musings about what makes up Greenfield Development and if there is such a concept anymore.

Posted on 05 February 2020

NDepend - Initial Thoughts

Initial thoughts on NDepend, mainly around installation and licencing.

Posted on 23 May 2018

Don't Let Redundancy Define You

Self reflecting thoughts on redundancy

Posted on 29 April 2018