TechGeneral
I am Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist from Cape Town, South Africa.
Welcome to TechGeneral, my technology web log, where I talk about my wide-ranging interests in technology — you can see a bunch of the more common topics in the navigation above.
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April 17
- Re: http://nxsy.org/redirecting-from-confluence-to-mediawiki-part-4 disqus "Looks like my old URL wasn't redirecting correctly. It is working now, although the URLs aren't quite right..."
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April 07
- Re: Scott Ambler's Agility at Scale presentation in Cape Town disqus "Hey Shayan, Strangely enough, I was wondering what you were up to during the presentation, probably because I was reminded of the two companies we've worked together by the presentation. Getting started with testing is the hardest part. It's painful on an existing project and painful when you're doing it for the first time, so you've really got to make the time to get it done early on, or the pile of features people will inevitably pile onto your plate will mean you'll never get it done. I guess it's something like revision control, continuous integration, and a bug tracker — you need to make it a requirement before developing code that the project has a test suite. I've convinced people of not moving forward until revision control and bug tracking are in place easily enough, so hopefully making that sort of stand on testing would be similarly easy with the right arguments. Neil"
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December 05
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December 02
- Torture is being stuck debugging production issues while hearing your SO playing Little Big Planet downstairs. twitter
- Is everyone now going to blog about the post by @nicharry that we blog too much about blogging in South Africa? twitter
- Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there? disqus "Thanks for all the comments, guys, and especially to Graham. I think I'm nearing a decision-making-time."
- Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there? disqus "I'm tempted to sign up with FNB's Share Investor given that I am already a FNB client. Tax seems to be a nightmare with share investing — what does FNB do to help make sure I have the right information for when tax time comes around?"
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November 10
- Griffin Clarifi: $35. Postage to South Africa: $140. twitter The Clarifi has a macro-focus lens for the iPhone camera that allows you to take recognisable photos of barcodes.
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November 03
- Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there? disqus "Definitely won't be day trading — just want to manage a portion of my portfolio myself. Too bad about the Standard Bank Online Share trading — having only a handful of blue-chip companies is probably going to remove it from the running in this case."
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October 01
- Re: http://nxsy.org/amazon-s3-storage-manager-for-knowledgetree disqus "You should probably contact the KnowledgeTree team — I seem to recall they were working on an S3 storage manager a while back."