Self Demotion

Yesterday was my last day in my role at IMOS as I’m taking a new position at the Hobart-based startup, Biteable, next week. In the world of online tools and DevOps it’s now interesting that a lot of the administration to do with me leaving could be done by me, myself. Previously it

My first community presentation

Over the last 6 months I’ve attended a few nights at my local web developer group, Webdev 42°. For a little while I’ve thought that I should do a presentation of my own.

Originally I had thought about presenting about Groovy and Grails as I use them at my workplace, and I think that knowing about them would really open the eyes of anyone who develops webapps on the JVM. However after thinking about it more I realised that

The longevity of decisions

There are many cases in software engineering where decisions are made that have far-reaching consequences. Sometimes the choices are between some good, logical alternatives and sometimes they might be a bit arbitrary. And of course, once a decision has been made, there are points in the future where others might choose to keep following that decision or to choose another path. I just want to write about an interesting outcome from an old decision that has been maintained throughout the design of many systems. This original decision (and its perpetuation) has had an effect on me that was so far beyond anything that might have been predicted that I thought it warranted writing about.

How I found out about the original decision

I was trying to create a file on my Windows 7 computer; which should be