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Slides from My OSLO “PDC Fireworks” Presentation

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

The lightning talks went well, everyone was reasonably happy to sit through the presentations and I’m hoping people took away some nuggets of information that will help them divulge deeper.
My talk spawned a small drinking game (although with mimed drinks) from James. A drink for every time I said “model”. For an 8-10 minute talk [...]

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Getting Oslo’s Intellipad to show MGrammar Mode

Posted by Owen Evans on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

[EDIT: You can just launch Intellipad with Samples Enabled, from the Start Menu. For some reason my first port of call was to run Intellipad from the command line]
Ok I’m beginning to dive into Oslo, so I can at least Appear knowledgeable for the PDC Fireworks talk next week, but there was one thing that [...]

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Like footprints on the moon: beware your software legacy

Posted by Owen Evans on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This post has been brewing for some time:
A couple of weeks ago I was very amused to get a tweet from Daniel Cazzulino (the guy behind Moq)

The reason I found the text funny was the idea that Daniel found it strange to have legacy parts of an application within a year of starting the application. [...]

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Post 300

Posted by Owen Evans on Friday, August 8th, 2008

Ok I just had to cheat an make up a reason to post. But this is my 300th post, this blog has been going for more than 5 years (25 Feb 2003 was my first post, those heady days of university). that’s 1992 days, so an average of one post every 6.64 days. (my goodness that’s less than a post per week).

In that time I have been through 5 jobs and finished a university degree, been in 2 countries and moved house 7 times.

I’m sure there’s some other interesting facts I can pull up about the time since I started this weblog, but one of the more interesting ones is that I’ve been going longer than our esteemed leader Rod, who recently decided to give up on blogging.

I’ve got a lot of sympathy for that, I’ve battled the same feelings, albeit that I’ve never been close to as prolific a writer as Rod. But I’ve always decided to persevere.

Two main reasons

  1. This blog is for me and no one else, sure others read it (I think) but the primary audience is me. I still look back on key posts and remember what my life was like, or how many options I had, it allows me to study the past and use the lessons into the future.
  2. I’m not a very good writer. This might sound a bit of a reason not to write, but on the contrary I think it’s the prime reason to keep practicing, hoping that one day my brothers skills with rub off and I can write almost as well.

So this is now officially a milestone.

here’s to the next 5 years.

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