Life
The Importance of Deliberate Practise
In this article I cover what deliberate practise is and why is it important to do it.
Life
52 Posts in 52 Weeks
One year ago, I set myself the goal of writing 52 blog posts in 52 weeks. "That's not that hard," you might think. Well, why not click through and see whether I made it?
Life
Where Have You Been [2014 edition]?
So I’ve not written since March 12th… almost 3 months ago. What’s happened since then? I’ve moved 60 miles, gotten myself a new job and ran a 9 minute mile. A New Job? That’s right. I’m only a week into my probationary period at the minute (3 months will fly by, Read more…
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May Update
I was deleting some spam comments, this morning, when I realised that it had been a long time since I’d updated. So here goes nothing: where have you been, jamie? Basically nowhere, I’ve just been really busy is all. busy? doing what? Well: Working on translating a novel from Japanese Read more…
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Previously on Jamie’s Life:
Software Development In the past few weeks, I signed up for a thing called GitHub. For those who don’t know, GitHub is one of the many channels through which to share Open Source code – most of the code I write in my personal time is Open Source. It also Read more…
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Alexiel’s Letter [Cross Post]
Tomorrow afternoon, my Japanese blog [which can be found here] will auto publish a letter that I ‘wrote’ back in 2007. I say ‘wrote’, because it was part of a bigger piece of Japanese coursework. I’m cross posting this in the hopes that some bi-lingual folk who might come across this Read more…
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UK Tech Days – Day 2 (Windows 7 Phone)
The publishing of this post as postponed by three days because of problems with Jamie’s connection Today was the second day of Microsoft’s UK Tech Days conference on the Windows 7 Phone format. It took place at the Fulham Broadway Vue and covered the topics involved in developing and deploying software Read more…
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UK Tech Days – Day 1 (Windows 7 Phone)
Today was the first day of Microsoft’s UK Tech Days conference on the Windows 7 Phone format. It took place at the Fulham Broadway Vue and covered the topics involved in developing and deploying software ‘apps’ for the Windows 7 Phones. Content Most of the content was made up of developers Read more…
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Folding and Libraries
Libraries I was once asked what I considered an excellent question in an interview. One I managed to screw up completely. Why do we used standard libraries in place of our own code? The context for this question was this: I’d just completed a task were I had to, in Read more…
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FizzBuzz
Edit (19/01/2013) I have edited this post on the above date. However, the only change that I have made is that I am now hosting the source code (found at the end of this post) on GitHub. This means, that if I need to make a change to the code, I do Read more…