Jamie Schembri - Jamie Schembri

I haven't heard about C# and the .NET framework for years.

My brain is a torrent, coursing with new ideas and fond memories of the past few days at Friendly.rb, the "Friendly European Ruby conference."

🖋️ This article is one part of my series on Robert (Bob) C.

🖋️ This article is one part of my series on Robert (Bob) C.

🖋️ This article is one part of my series on Robert (Bob) C.

🖋️ This article is one part of my series on Robert (Bob) C.

🖋️ This article is one part of my series on Robert (Bob) C.

The SOLID principles are often presented as the foundational rules that all good developers should know and employ in writing object-oriented software.

At first glance, depending on a library to fill a requirement is just good engineering.

Introduction ℹ️ I am not affiliated with any of the services mentioned in this post.

I dislike [all] blanket statements, but complexity is never desirable.

Google recently added a dialog to let users select their search engine.

Git provides a rich set of options for customising its behaviour via the .gitconfig file.

I recently moved this site away from Hugo and onto Eleventy.

It's not a rhetorical question.

Our coffee machine is currently at the shop for repair, so we're stuck drinking instant.

Lately I've been experimenting with RubyMine.

When exporting data for general use, we commonly reach for CSV files; they're basically plain-text, but with a sort-of agreed-upon structure — well, there is RFC 4180 but Wikipedia agrees that implementations are inconsistent at best.

I have a PC hooked up to the TV in our living room, which is used primarily for Kodi and video games.

One of our servers recently experienced an issue in that its disk usage was consistently growing to illogical, unmanageable proportions.

Testing API calls is a little bit hairy.