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I've been working a lot of long days recently. This means I don't have a lot of time or interest in doing anything in the evenings. Unfortunately, it also means a lot of my projects are not really getting the time they deserve. Many of these projects were things I built up when I worked from home, s [...]

If you could receive one piece of praise or one piece of criticism, which would you choose? Assuming that each one would be accurate and stated in a courteous manner. I'd choose criticism, but with one caveat. Give me criticism when I can actually do something about it. Don't wait for me to screw up [...]

"Have Your Say" is a community within the BBC News website. Topics relating to recent news stories are posted, and people add their views. This week, the site moved to a new system that is basically a blog. While I'm not a particularly active commenter at HYS, I do read quite a few of the debates. I [...]

Having worked in software development for over 11 years, I've worked on a wide range of tasks. These have included small change requests, support calls, bug fixes, feature development, automated test scripts, software rewrites, and building large websites with extensive functionality. Over the year [...]

Writing about the life of a web developer as I do, there are plenty of things I can talk about on the blog. Some of these include: what I'm working on at the moment things I've recently used or learned general thoughts about being a technically-minded blogger some views on other blogs, and bloggin [...]