Life Beyond Fife

This is an amusing play-on-words type of blog post as I can't remember the last time I had a restful weekend.

Many people look at the beauty in nature and wonder how it all could have possibly been created.

I truly believe that banks, or any institution that exists by making trades based on financial instruments, is not inherently evil.

Happy New Year - 2012 is the year of code!

I don't need to tell you just how revolutionary the internet and other hi-tech telecoms advances have been in changing the way we live and work.

Greetings new blog readers and functional programming aficionados.

After recently remarking about how I finally "got" functional programming I was asked by one of my millions of twitter followers... ¬¬ to write up an explanation of a small Fprogram spoken in terms that fellow O-O programmers would understand.

At university, the "What do you study?"

With the next release of .Net making a big push for parallelism-for-everyone-made-easy, I thought I'd take this opportunity to see if it really is as simple as they say.

A project I recently started working on required me to install Python on my development environment - something I've not relished doing in the past.

Though Life Beyond Fife is primarily a technology blog this article is for everyone.

D-Lighted is a free, open-source Windows database tool that allows users to connect to multiple different database platforms all from within the same small executable.

Ok, yes, I know it's actually furniture makers who make tables and chairs but the title is long enough as it is.

Software Development is a strange profession.

The start of the new football season in England is upon us and for some this means careful deliberation over their Fantasy Football League team for the opening week.

Have you ever had problems with numbers somewhere around 40,000 claiming to be dates?

A friend and former colleague of mine told me after leaving the company we had both worked at, "I never want to work for a big company again."

"Hey, I am not unemployed I'm on sabbatical!"