Not what it could have been

I was trying to write a blog post comparing what leave.eu, the highly populist, Farage led, campaign said vs what the mainstream Vote Leave said. This would be an important comparison, since

You've got stories. You run sprints. You even have a daily standup. You're agile and doing Scrum, right?! So why's it not working? Most implementations I've seen have absolutely missed the point, and

Imagine a team that normally expects to do 25 points in a 2 week Sprint. They normally produce high quality, well tested, well reviewed, work, and as a result very few immediately apparent

This was originally an email to a co-worker asking for input on a set of interview questions he'd written for a senior developer role. I thought I'd publish it here as I find

I recently had the pleasure of reading Peter Welch's Programming Sucks essay, which I felt captured a significant percentage of the delight of being a software developer. I'm pretty sure that most people

You've always been able to collect the server side error logs for server side code, allowing you to track down those strange corner cases that users always stumble into, but developers and QA

I've recently had the misfortune to have to work out how to fix an XSS attack in an existing application. The XSS flaw in question was related to the ability to ask for

It strikes me as slightly odd that: is_numeric("0xaa") === true (float)"0xaa" == 0 (float)("0xaa"+0) == 170 The same's true casting to int. Similarly annoyingly: is_