After finishing a year-long stint working for the Government Digital Service to deliver support to people during the worst of the pandemic, I took a month off.

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I work in Higher Education in the UK. Every day I see enterprisey systems which are awful, terrible, unfriendly, unusable, behemoths. The market for each niche system is more or less a monopoly. The market is prime for smaller, more agile, more user-friendly systems to come in and destroy them. Please, somebody just kill off these dinosaurs.

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So what an exciting first few weeks back we’ve had! We started off nice and easy, picking up all the support requests that had been filed over the Christmas break and, after a suggestion from Kelvin last year, put together a demo of an augmented reality map of the University campus using Layar (which I will post more about later). We also started pr...

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What we’re trying to do at work: test-driven development pair programming implementation docs on the wiki code coverage stats (with cobertura) regularly generated via… continuous integration (at the moment with

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And very annoying it is too 🙂 I’ve got about three small but interesting project I’d like to get out the door as soon as possible, but I’m moving house in a few days, and am dead busy at work, so I probably won’t be able to get around to them until late July. Boooooo.

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Christ it’s been busy at work.

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