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Learning to Fly: Lesson 6

Posted on July 10, 2022February 18, 2023 by rich

It’s been over a month since my last flying lesson, since the unfortunate accident involving the Reims-Cessna F150H (a Cessna 150 built under license in France), which I had only just started to grips with. The flight school acquired another F150H, a 1968 model registration G-AWUJ, which had just been fitted with a brand new […]

The Importance of Returning to the Office

Posted on June 19, 2021July 11, 2023 by rich

Returning to the office is a controversial subject. Some organisations report that over 10% of their staff are threatening to leave if they are asked to return to the office at all, let alone full time. I have a perspective on this that comes from moving jobs during the pandemic. I left a job at […]

Public Property Setters Can Get In The Sea

Posted on September 4, 2020September 17, 2020 by rich

I’m an unapologetic advocate of Object-oriented programming (OOP) and if you’re using an OOP programming framework I’m here to argue the case for burning your public property setters with napalm fire. As you probably know if you’re reading this, OOP is the discipline of expressing concepts as objects in code. A ubiquitous example is “Person”. […]

The Truth About Computer Programmers

Posted on February 19, 2012February 19, 2012 by rich

Facebook Files for IPO, Bitch!

Posted on February 1, 2012February 1, 2012 by rich

As expected, Menlo Park-based Social Network, Facebook, has filed its S-1 form ahead of an Initial Public Offering in April. You can see the full form here, there are some interesting facts presented: As of Dec 31st 2011, Facebook had 845 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs). As of Dec 31st 2011, Facebook had 483 million […]

Facebook Filing for $100bn IPO This Week

Posted on January 29, 2012 by rich

Various sources are reporting that Social Network supergiant, Facebook, will file for an Initial Public Offering next week. Wall St. Journal (WSJ), the BBC, and others suggest that shares will be offered to raise $10 billion, and valuing the company at a cool $100bn. Compare that to Google’s 2004 IPO which saw them raise $1.9bn. […]

Apple Releases 2012 Q1 Results

Posted on January 24, 2012January 24, 2012 by rich

Apple have just released their 2012 1st Quarter results. You might want to sit down for this… Back in July I reported on Apple’s 2011 Q3 results. They were very good. Back in October, I completely forgot to report on Apple’s Q4 results, which saw revenues get diluted because people were waiting around for the […]

Google (Customer Services) Is Evil

Posted on January 13, 2012 by rich

Back in July I signed up for Google AdSense so I could earn a little cash to go towards hosting my little corner of the Interwebz. After a week or so of looking at a “your account is under review” page, I suddenly got an error saying I had been disapproved. Then I joined countless […]