Delegate 🙂 Failing that, headphones and some good tunes to help me through it!

All my data is on an external harddrive, which is not backed up nearly as often as it should be. Nothing important lives on my devices. Saying that if Gmail...

C #8 Coffee...
Indeed coffee (lack thereof) would be a dealbreaker for me!

I keep comparing my current job (great) with my previous one (not great) and here are the things I really appreciate where I am now: minimal admin/meetings, being allowed to...

It's funny how four years later reading this thread you could all easily be talking about something I witnessed only last week - and by "funny" I of course mean excruciating and...

I do weight training in the evenings. It's a different kind of stress I guess, but in a way as I use my mind and not my body during office...

I enjoy my job and it is rewarding, I like the people I work with, I learn every day and the work we do does benefit others... but it is still just...

We use yammer here, for the whole company but with subgroups by department/interest etc. Works pretty well. We have tech subgroups where we post about project launches/new products/training/blogs, but there are...

You can get the UK bank holidays from the API on gov.uk i.e. https://www.gov.uk/api/bank-holidays.json

BASIC (faffing around at home as a kid)
C++, Java, SQL, (some other bits and pieces like assembly (University)
Classic ASP (Job 1)
VB, tcl, XSLT, more SQL (Job 2)
.NET...

While I certainly agree that motivation comes from within, nothing saps mine like putting inhibitors in my way. If you want me to do my best then remove roadblocks (software...

Why do people care about points so much 🙂