In May, I joined the School of Computing at the University of Kent as a Lecturer (equivalent of Assistant Professor in some other countries). When applying for the job, I spent a lot of time thinking about how to best explain the kind of research that I would like to do. This blog post is a brief summary of my ideas. I'm interested in way too many things, including philosophy and design and data journalism, but this post will be mainly about programming language research. After all, I'm a member of the Pro[...]

Presently sponsored by: CloudZero enables cost as a real time operational metric for FinDevOps teams, exposing the financial ramifications of Serverless and Cloud-Native engineering decisions. Key benefits include cost-focused DevOps and real-time mapping of cost, behavior and resource relationships. Hi, welcome to another weekly update! It’s been a quiet week, I have been busy finishing off the VPC chapter of my video course Production-Ready Serverless, which should be available to you next week. In the m[...]

I’ve been having a conversation with some folks on Twitter about their evidence that mob programming makes Brooks’ Law irrelevant. Someone offered evidence based upon his own experience that mob programming breaks this rule.  I hope I’m not mischaracterizing his argument. That is,  I don’t think he’s saying that mob programming negates Brooks’ Law–I think […]

So I’ve been trying to keep my development skills somewhat sharp by working on coding up certain data structures in C#.  Course I’d rather do this with F# or even some more interesting FP language (Elm anyone?) but I do have a need to be able to show this code to student developers and the […]

While I’ve done a lot of things that I now regret, I can say that I’ve been somewhat blessed to have learned from some of my mistakes.  So please believe that this advice comes from sad experience and that I’m just trying to help some folks avoid the career limiting moves that I have made […]