I used to work as a Java-developer a couple of years ago. At the time for this story, I was very new to Java, and relied completely on the experience of my co-workers. The task at hand was writing a search engine using our own search engine building blocks. It was a fairly standard thing [...]
I’m moving to London. About six months ago, I applied for a position at Thoughtworks, and I fooled them into hiring me. I’m really looking forward to it. Both getting to know a new city, and working in a company like TW. London is fun because the largest place I’ve lived in (not counting Buenos [...]
Fact 1: I’m fairly good at catching balls. If you throw a ball at me, not to hard, I’ll probably be able to catch it. This does not make me feel very special – I share this ability with big parts of the human population. What’s fun though, is that if you describe the how [...]