It’s finally here

As many of you have been asking, and as I’ve been promising for the past couple of years, finally I’ve made time to put up a new website and am committed to post new information hopefully on a daily basis.

For the past year or so I’ve been mainly working with financial companies in London helping with white label branding of their products and developing in-house tools to make the work of their designers and developers easy. At City Index I was solely responsible for the development of their white label re-branding tool which had to be easy to use for their graphic designers. This tool included photoshop style color pickers, easy to use text editors, image upload functionality and a built in market label editing tool.

I worked with some really great developers at City Index including Nick Sertis of sertis.net and enjoyed our time pair programming, creating new tests for our TDD environment and generally making sure we had a lot of fun whilst providing business value with every line of code we wrote.

My aim with this new website is to post about my day-to-day dealings in the I.T. world, to talk about Pair Programming and Test Driven Development as well as to add helpful hints whenever I come across the challenges of being an software engineer.

I’ll hopefully also be able to show that software engineers really are humans too and that the era of the basement geek is over. To me, the interaction of real humans with other real humans is the only way forward. Email and documentation are okay for some things but face to face communication will never be beaten.