I’m still alive. And so will this blog be once again. It’s an interesting feeling to notice that your last post dates back to 4 years (4 YEARS!) ago. I’ve done the migration from Octopress to vanilla Jekyll now and in the spirit of doing the smallest thing possible, this is the MVP. Since my last post I have made the leap to …
This post is more than two months late, but I’ve been at DStv Online since November 2011. Intervate has been great to me, and is still on my recommended list of employers. I experienced significant growth there, and I thank them for that - but with consideration of some quality of life issues I’ve been having, and a need to stretch my …
In preparation for my recurring new years resolution of updating this blog, I’ve followed the advice of Simon Cropp and moved my old blog to Posterous .
I’m a little bit late with this announcement - a month or so. Welcome to the world, little one! Cayla Rose Hanekom was born on the 4th of June 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa, weighing a whopping 4.1 kg. Photo by Jörg Angeli on Unsplash
I’m back from a holiday of doing nothing on Ballito’s beautiful coast line (KwaZulu Natal, South Africa)… Back to reality… Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash
There’s been some long gaps between blog entries due to the amount of time I can afford to write. What am I up to these days? Still working my full time day job as a systems developer (I actually think it qualifies as a day-night job). Writing (and fixing) articles for CodeProject. Doing lots and lots of R&D (new frameworks, applications, …
Amazing how little time you get as a developer for doing the things you really want to do (and here I am sitting in front of a computer again ;)). This blog has been a bit stale, and I’ve made a quarter-year resolution to put new energy into it. Projects have been keeping me extremely busy these last couple of weeks - specifically an …
Here we go - my first post… I am working as a Systems Developer for a company in Johannesburg, specializing in Microsoft technologies (C#, SharePoint, BizTalk, SQL, the whole stack). This blog is a place where I can get my thoughts into the open and get opinions from the whole wide world (www). My intention is for this to be a learning …