Software developer, researcher and student.
The lead-up to Christmas was a little hectic last year. I was trying to write up the results of two pieces of work I had been doing throughout the year for journal submission - I had...
I’ve just finished attending an international conference where I presented two papers. What was I thinking? Never again. The amount of preparation for a talk - even a 20-minute talk - is a lot. Weeks of creating the slides and...
So, what do I mean exactly by multi-state array combinations? Part of the work I am currently doing requires me to calculate all possible combinations of an array of values of a fixed size, each value having three states. Each...
Yesterday I presented my “Summary of Research Project” to the School in which I am enrolled. This is part of the process of obtaining confirmed candidature, which basically means you are given the go ahead to do some actual research....
Wow. It finally happened. I have been offered a place into a Doctor of Philosophy course. It’s only taken five months but the offer finally came through. Is that normal?
I wrote about the enrolment process before but that...
After using Team Foundation Server (TFS) for many years here at work and managing the VM it runs on myself, the decision has been made to move to Bitbucket. The reasons for this are many, some outside of my control,...
I work in a secure office with a small team of researchers. I am a software developer; they are mathematicians, analysts and researchers. We have a secure network with five servers in a secured “cupboard” inside the office. The university...
I’ve read a few articles in the past on Imposter Syndrome and some of them really resonated with me (see I’m a phony. Are you? and The Weight of Impostor Syndrome). In fact, a Google search brings...
My development environment of choice is Visual Studio and C#. I have a lot of experience with it and I feel more productive than other environments. I have used Java (with Eclipse) in the past and some elements of my...
It has been some months since I started my new job, but I still haven’t submitted my “Application for Admission to a Higher Degree by Research”. To be honest I was hoping that I’d be enrolled and cracking on with...
I’ve been working as a software developer for the best part of 20 years now and I’ve always had commercial realities impacting my work and the work that I really want to be doing. There was always someone else (ultimately)...