sutton050

I've a small gripe with technology recruiters, if any of you out there are reading this (which since I just cast my CV around, you should be). And this is their penchant for skills lists... I have a very minimalist CV, one page of A4, it covers the primary software languages I like (C++, C, C#) makes mention of my favourite working styles (Agile/Scrum) and it has my history and pertinent academic background. That's all... Minimal, just me, my page one shot done. Anymore and it never, ever, gets me anywhere.  It apparently comes across as "hey look at me" attempts to garner and keep attention with the right buzz words, which I myself despise.  Or it comes over as not having a lot to talk about in the interview, as everything you want to know might very well be in this tome of a CV, and I myself reading them find that I want to ask every question I can in the interview stage, so having it all there you disengage, hurting both your interest in the candidate and their cha...

Seventy Three years ago, I know roughly where and what all four of my grand parents were doing... All were variously occupied fighting as part of the British effort of World War Two, I do not know whether they were aware of the cease fire or impending Victory in Europe, and indeed for one of my Grandfathers the war was not over; as he was aboard HMS Belfast, just refitting for redeployment to the far east and the on going war with the desperate but crumbling Empire of Japan. In this post, I'll cover what little I know, to share that nugget of who these people where and what they were doing.  So from oldest to youngest. We have my Nan, or Nanna, Kath.  She was a young woman by the end of the war, from a child at the out break, a hard beginning in life in the care system with both parents gone by wars end she was in the Land Army working the fields of Norfolk, though a native of London.  She was born in the shadow of Portobello Road, and to this day (despite living in Notti...

Most of us are well aware of how much heat electronic equipment puts out, what can be less intuitive and harder to balance is the problem of heat from hard drives. Good organised machine operation, with clearly defined device usages, easy control of units across machines, sites or different customers is the key, therefore enter stage left a nice fat label to hold all the details of the unit. Except, this label acts as a heat blocker, reducing the surface area of the metallic or foil labelled drive as delivered, reducing the area across which the heat from the unit can dissipate, and even causing uneven heating, or heat wearing over time. The net result... For my project, a high mechanical drive mortality rate, which I simply could not explain, nor model or explain in the man lab. Only a trip to see how these machines were being employed sufficed to show the problem, label after label applied and reapplied, a drive on within a machine was untouchable it got so hot.  My solution, put...