I regularly attend technical conferences in order to learn, make new contacts and generally participate in whatever community that conference represents.
Over the years, I have found that the best way to increase my chances of making new friends and contacts is to speak at the conference - people are far …
more ...The views expressed in this article are my own and do not represent the views of any part of the UK Scout Association, including Mersey Weaver Scout District.
Over they last few years, many Scout Groups, Explorer Units and other parts of the Scout movement in the UK have used …
more ...This is an open response to a letter from Graham Evans MP, a copy of which is available on this site: http://www.owencampbell.me.uk/docs/GrahamEvansLetter.pdf
The letter was prompted by a tweet of mine which criticised his vote against an amendment to the immigration bill: https …
more ...One vital role of the leader is to define and enforce the processes that the team will follow. I've seen more projects fail as result of getting this wrong than any other single cause.
Do I have the definitive answer as to the process you should follow? No, I do …
more ...Over the years, I've led, and been a member of, numerous technical teams on a wide variety of projects. Based on that experience, this series of articles documents my observations on the role of the leader in that sort of team.
Firstly, some thoughts on authority...
How did …
more ...If you're at DjangoCon Europe in Cardiff next week, you should come and join in with the DjAxelrod project sprints on Thursday and Friday.
DjAxelrod is a project to build a Django based web application that will allow anyone to create Axelrod tournaments and to study their results.
But what …
more ...The client for this project was a UK PLC with over 150 multi-national subsidiary companies.
They were replacing their ERP system for the whole Group and required full historical data migration at the transactional level - the new system should look like it had always been in place since the company …
more ...When I tell people that I don't use Microsoft Word, they are generally somewhat taken aback and then assume that, because I own a Mac rather than a Windows PC, that I just use Apple's Pages instead.
I don't!
In fact, I don't use any kind of conventional word processor …
more ...This article describes how to get a Pelican powered website up and running with minimal effort using a Vagrant virtual machine.
Pelican is a static html generator for creating blog style websites from simple text files in markdown, rst or creole syntax.
Vagrant is a tool for managing isolated development …
more ...This series of articles presents how an Agresso system may be managed in such a way as to minimise risk and provide assurance, traceability and accountability to an organisation, its managers and auditors.
The objectives of the ideas presented here are: