Category Archives: General
40 years of programming
It been 40 years since my first experience of programming as an undergraduate at Strathclyde University. It was very different experience from today, to begin with programs were written on punched cards prepared on punch card machine with no delete, … Continue reading
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Fast few months
Over 4 months since last post! Can’t believe it has gone so quickly. I have been contracting for the first time in 20 years and the time has just flown by. Everything has been, pretty much, on hold but the … Continue reading
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Scrivener – more than a word processor.
I have used many applications to write with but they all had one thing in common they were word processors. Writing could become a nightmare of switching between the text being written, source material, reference material, research notes and so … Continue reading
Linux as XP Replacement?
I have been using Linux off and on since the mid 1990’s. In the early days it was very much a command line system with graphics being limited and hard to set up. Graphic front ends have come a long … Continue reading
