Thoughts from a software engineer in Singapore
It’s already April! How did that happen? Busy busy busy. I neglected to do an update for February but hopefully I can kind of remember what happened. February isn’t a real month anyway. Need at least 30 days to be
Read moreHello blog! So one of my resolutions this year was to plan better, and one of the ways I thought of doing this was to review each month as they go by. First month down, eleven to go. So let’s
Read more2015 was my second full year in Singapore, and again a year of many changes, but somewhat slower changes compared with recent years. I changed jobs and moved house for the third time in as many years, but now I’m
Read moreTraditionally I’m a pretty late adopter of new trends, and Go has been out for something like 6 years now, so I figured it would be a good time to try it. I’ve been learning it for about 2 months;
Read moreI’ve been wanting to try Docker ever since I saw a talk about it at Red Dot Ruby Conf. The idea of being able to build a container in development and ship it to staging, then production without any changes
Read moreCapybara is one of those tools that sounds great but is often frustrating. The claims of ‘no setup’ and ‘intuitive API’ make it sound like automating your browser testing is going to be a simple task. Unfortunately, the nature of
Read moreToday I felt like making a game, so I learnt about Phaser and set myself the task/challenge of recreating a simple game from my childhood. Phaser is incredibly fun and easy to get started, I’d recommend giving it a go!
Read moreOne big difference between Perl and Ruby is that Ruby has no lexical variables. This confuses me when programming Ruby, because I’m used to thinking ifwill create a new scope. It doesn’t. Variables defined inside if will be available outside,
Read moreOn reading about the Heartbleed bug bug, my first thoughts were: This sounds quite simple, is it really easy to spot? Why wasn’t this noticed during review? The bug is in the Heartbeat Extension for TLS, as described in this
Read morePossibly not everyone knows that English is an official language of Singapore (one of 4.) What’s more, there is an unofficial (and sometimes frowned upon) mini-language called Singlish, derived from bits of Hokkien, Teochew, Malay, English and Tamil. Most of
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