This annual post is one of my favorites. In last years post I mentioned that the number of technical books I read had dropped from seven in 2018 to three in 2019. For 2020 that number is zero. Since turning pro, it is the first year in which I have not read a book on […]
I have wanted to volunteer to help run a Code Club since first hearing about it back in June 2013 thanks to this episode of the Ubuntu Podcast where they interviewed one of the founders; Linda Sandvik The universe had different plans for me for a while but it was in the back of mind […]
I try to attend a developers conference once a year and this year I attended NDC London 2018. I was surprised that only two developers out of the many I had asked before going knew of the NDC brand of conferences. I discovered NDC thanks to Carl and Richard of .NET Rocks! Thanks gents, I owe […]
Looking back at the technical books I had read in 2017, the biggest surprise is that I didn’t read any books on Oracle which I think is the longest time I have spent between Oracle books. This hiatus will not last long into 2018 because of the imminent launch of Pete Finnigan’s new book The four […]
You will have noticed that in my recent posts I have been writing about more and more about technologies other than Oracle. This deliberate change reflects my own journey as I move from the “classic” Oracle Developer role; working with Application Express and Oracle Forms to becoming a polyglot programmer. I have spent the last […]
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