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By Paul Williams Posted on November 25, 2020November 25, 2020

Improving my photographic workflow

When I first started to become interested in photography, I followed the typical beginner approach of having a date and event based folder structure that would host my RAW and … Continue reading Improving my photographic workflow

By Paul Williams Posted on October 16, 2019October 21, 2019

Borrowdale to Green Gable wild camp

The past few years years has seen less frequent wild camps than a decade ago. Recently, I’ve only managed yearly wild camps with Jason, generally in the snow. The main … Continue reading Borrowdale to Green Gable wild camp

Tags: walking, wildcamping
By Paul Williams Posted on November 18, 2018October 18, 2019

Flooded Derwent Village, Ladybower

Alongside the Derwent reservoir is a tourist information sign that describes Derwent village, and it’s flooding in the 1940s. Cheryl and I have passed it countless times, and we’ve frequently … Continue reading Flooded Derwent Village, Ladybower

By Paul Williams Posted on February 25, 2018October 20, 2019

Nine Ladies

Today, Cheryl and I completed our 2nd walk of our “ITV’s Britain’s Favourite Walks” challenge. As I’m participating in the Rawlinson Bracket sportive tomorrow, we decided to do a smaller … Continue reading Nine Ladies

Tags: ITV 100 FAVOURITE WALKS
By Paul Williams Posted on February 17, 2018October 20, 2019

Dovedale done!

So Cheryl and I thought we’d ease ourselves into our “ITV’s Britain’s Favourite Walks“ challenge by repeating one of our local favourites, Dovedale to Milldale. The seven miler is a … Continue reading Dovedale done!

Tags: ITV 100 FAVOURITE WALKS
By Paul Williams Posted on October 30, 2014October 20, 2019

My first attempt at the GOOS Auction Sniper pt3

The first post in this series covered my introduction to Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests (GOOS), and my first, overly challenging attempt at implementing its worked example in … Continue reading My first attempt at the GOOS Auction Sniper pt3

Tags: software craftsmanship, test driven development
By Paul Williams Posted on October 27, 2014October 20, 2019

My first attempt at the GOOS Auction Sniper pt2

In the first post of this series I summarised my introduction to Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests (GOOS), and why I decided to revisit it in late 2013. … Continue reading My first attempt at the GOOS Auction Sniper pt2

Tags: software craftsmanship, test driven development
By Paul Williams Posted on October 20, 2014October 20, 2019

My first attempt at the GOOS Auction Sniper

This is the first in a series of posts about Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (GOOS) by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce. In this post, I describe my introduction … Continue reading My first attempt at the GOOS Auction Sniper

Tags: software craftsmanship, test driven development
By Paul Williams Posted on March 18, 2013October 20, 2019

Five reasons database integration sucks

It’s common across organisations to employ multiple IT applications that need to share data. CRM, billing systems, and technical support portals might all need to access the list of customers … Continue reading Five reasons database integration sucks

Tags: software craftsmanship
By Paul Williams Posted on January 19, 2012October 22, 2019

Don’t automate everything, at least at first

Recently, I read a post that advocated purposely doing things in a way that wouldn’t scale, thus hoping to provide better insight into the problem domain, as well as deferring … Continue reading Don’t automate everything, at least at first

Tags: software craftsmanship
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