January 2010
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Bayerische Motoren Werke
I’d love to say it isn’t. It’s really really not a personal thing, and I do know a few of them so I KNOW they aren’t ALL bad. It’s just that 8 times out of 10, when I finally see the badge, it’s one of them. I’m willing to concede that it might be one…
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Words and books
I’m blaming Stephen Fry. I tried, I really did try and read his autobiography but it just didn’t flow for me. As wonderful a wordsmith as he is, it just didn’t read well, the flow and cadence was wrong and I found myself slowing down to read things in his voice. Whilst I like Stephen…
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Making the brave choices
I was recently asked to write an article about blogging for inclusion in a piece focussed on social media and how it will both challenge and change our profession as a whole and the more I wrote the more it helped me sort out my own thoughts on the matter. One thing I’ve realised is…
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This is not Friends
If it was, this would be the “one where nothing that interesting happens because, you know, life is mostly like that”. Or perhaps it would be the “one where all anyone seems to be talking about is the snow and ice”. Or, most realistically, it would be the “one where he spends all day doing…
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Analyse this
Let me tell you a story. In it our hero (me) fights valiantly against two Javascript dragons called Webhelp and Google Analytics. It’s a bloody battle and at the end, when all the fighting is done, well … you’ll have to read on and find out. Some background first. We have a developer community website…
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Who cares if they read it or not?
Seriously, do we spend too much time worrying about this? What do we get paid for after all, to write documentation, so that’s what we should concentrate on doing. So what if no-one reads it, as long as I’ve done my job I’ll get paid. And no, I don’t care if they don’t understand how…