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Missing the important stuff

A few days ago I found out a very good friend of mine had died several months ago. I hadn’t heard about it and, of course, I had missed his funeral. It was very upsetting news, especially because I had found out so long after the fact. His passing had been announced on Facebook, but…

Bad, good and great programmers

A recent tweet by Cory House started my brain a-twitching: One of my new favourite interview questions: What is the difference between a bad, good and great programmer? Which are you and why? I’ve worked with all three kinds, and thinking about the question of what the differences are I realised (not for the first…

A note to myself

Nothing to see here, please move along! Wakefield Cathedral: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8JdEr_At4k Jerusalem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RZLoiMiv38 BibleMap: http://biblemap.org/ Bible GeoCoding: http://www.openbible.info/geo/ May the Lord, Mighty God, Bless and keep you forever. Grant you peace, Perfect peace, Courage in every endeavor. Lift up your eyes and see His face, Keep His grace forever. May the Lord, Mighty God, Bless and…

CMS Architecture: Before you begin

It’s important to plan any large-scale software development. Fail to plan, plan to fail as the old saying goes. So before a single line of code is written, before even any architecture or technology decisions have been made, I’m going to define what I want my CMS to be. Firstly, and most importantly, the CMS…

CMS architecture: Part 1

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the architecture of content management systems (CMS) recently. Little wonder, that’s my full-time focus at the moment. By “architecture” I mean pretty much everything to do with the planning and development of a CMS. This blog post is the first in a series that explores some of…

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February 24, 2021, 5:08 pm