Steve Freeman

Fifth year in a row.

The system I’ve been working on for almost a year went live this weekend. Hooray!

We had a few changes to make on Monday, which we turned around within the day, and since then (touch wood) no show-stoppers. The changes have mainly been to do with discovering effects on downstream systems that we haven’t been able […]

Jason rants about the latest news from our National Health Service’s computerisation project. There’s an excellent analysis from Michael Cross in Prospect A wearying catalogue of all the things we already know are wrong with Big Software. I wonder how much money we’ll have to waste before anything changes.

Perhaps the worst aspect of this affair […]

I’m at the AYE with a number of friends and colleagues, such as Duncan Pierce, Alan Francis, and J. B. Rainsberger.

The first session I went to was about how introverts and extroverts interact (badly) and how to mitigate that; of course, the IT industry is heavily biased towards introversion. It turns out that introverts and […]