So, according to my introduction, one of my goals for this project is to build a web app or service to demonstrate my skillset in that area. Unfortunately, it's turns out my idea for a web app has already been done, and is quite well-known (on the plus side, I …

Design patterns are a very broad subject, but as far as I can tell, they are primarily common conventions for structuring software. I've never been taught them, and as far as I can tell, I've used nearly all of them, repeatedly. So for an experienced software developer, I don't believe …

Many years ago, I was tasked with improving the performance of a suite of unit tests. They were taking ever longer to run, and were beyond 20 minutes when I started working with them. Needless to say, this meant people rarely ran them.

From Miško Hevery:

What I want is …

Hi there, I'm Alec Munro. For various reasons, I've been unable to engage online for the last several years. That is no longer true, and I find myself with time, so here I am, engaging (well, I hope so).

So what am I trying to engage with? Well, I'm a …

It's been a month since I started working on this blog, and the only thing I have gotten up is my introductory post, which talks about all the other stuff I want to write. Not quite the start I wanted to get off to, admittedly, but August managed to be …