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Like most organisations, when recruiting Readify conducts a series of coding tests. I won’t go into those tests in detail but one thing that I reflected on today was more around the evaluation of those tests and the difference between “good code”, “acceptable code”, “bad code” and “not my code”.
As we grow we have to [...] Read More...
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The last eighteen months has been a rollercoaster from an economic point of view. Around the world the financial empires crumbled. Australia faired better than most with its regulatory controls but we still felt it. Looking ahead the future looks much brighter, the economy seems to be fighting its way back and people are starting [...] Read More...
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As a professional services provider, Readify is well practiced in the process of filling in timesheets to support billing functions within the business. Consulting tends to be a T&M style engagement so turning those time entries into money isn’t a major problem (although you wouldn’t have AR/AP staff if it was a complete no-brainer [...] Read More...
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Yesterday I was sitting in the lobby of the hotel waiting for my ride to a client meeting. A MacBook user walked up to me an commented on the slightly different power adapter on my MacBook Air (as compared to say a MacBook Pro). We talked about the relative performance of a few of the [...] Read More...
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Yesterday I wrote a blog post about the possibilities & problems around hardware integration from Silverlight using the sockets capabilities. This evening whilst I was watching some television I started playing with this idea.
In the end I created a simple HttpListener (in a console application) which listens on port 8888 which serves up the client [...] Read More...
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One of the interesting capabilities in Silverlight is the ability to communicate cross-domain to socket hosts provided that certain policy requirements are satisfied. Specifically a policy file needs to be served up on port 943 and then a port in the range 4502-4534 can be used.
One of the possibilities that this creates is the ability [...] Read More...
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I’ve just been looking into a few options for reporting and e-mail generation within .NET applications. In the past I’ve used the Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) templating engine to generate e-mails to good effect and I’m looking to use it again on a little pet project. I’ve also got a need for a simple [...] Read More...
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Ah, you have to love Tech.Ed, it is one of the few events every year where the majority of the .NET developer community makes an attempt to get in the same place at the same time. Today was the academic day – and a big deal for MrAndyPuppy, and tonight the majority of delegates arrived [...] Read More...
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I recently completed (or contributed to the completion) the first phase of a Team Foundation Server (TFS) implementation project. For the most part the implementation was successful and we managed to move a relatively large code-base and complicated build across with only a few minor hitches that slowed progress rather than stopped it.
The code base [...] Read More...
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On Monday this week an internal announcement was made about my future at Readify. The big news is that I’m transitioning out of a full-time consulting role to become Readify’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). On one hand I am really excited about the opportunity but also humbled by the challenge ahead of me.
As a consultant [...] Read More...
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