Photo Walk Around London December 2018

So proud of my other half and the incredible hard work and thought she’s put in to make this room the most amazing place to spend quality time. This room makes me smile every time I come into it. :)

What a difference a day makes… winter IS coming

Apparently it’s Christmas soon, although you wouldn’t think it with the warm-ish weather in London.

Sunrise from south London

Gee thanks @Apple ! High five! 😳🧐

Fajitas!!!

One rule for us and one rule for them…

Walking into the clients office.

Quite possibly the coolest offices ever. Nice welcome touch too. #wework

Good coffee this morning. #london #goodcoffee

Looking forward to this meat fest for lunch.

Here we go!

Today I bought "Server Side Swift with Vapor" from Ray Wenderlich to get me off the ground from a programming perspective. While I have a programming degree (long, long, long ago at Glasgow University), I don't have experience of developing in Swift 4.x - kind of a downer when I'm trying to build an app & service based upon it! I'll post some musings as I work my way through the book, however as they say it's time to roll up my sleeves and start coding - stay tuned :)

Thinking about code & software stacks

Amongst family summer holidays and work I've been thinking about what my little software project should be written in and how it should run. My criteria are relatively straightforward (I think): * It must be a modern coding language * It must be easy to write, maintain and debug * It should be possible for mobile applications to be developed with as little recoding effort as possible (Not easy perhaps) * It should run on just about anything (no ties to a specific vendor platform) * It should NOT be Java (I have a love/hate relationship with Java)

I have an idea...

## What's this all about? _Well, first a little bit of history about me..._ I have been working for a long (long) time as an independent IT consultant, focussing on IT Security, primarily strategy and architecture. While I find this hugely rewarding work (and it pays well), there is nothing I can publicly say "I did that" or "I built that", such is the nature of my line of work.

I recommend you check out Don Melton's amazing set of command line tools (that use handbrake cli)…

I recommend you check out Don Melton's amazing set of command line tools (that use handbrake cli) and some awesome presets to get the very best digital copy possible – [donmelton.com](https://donmelton.com)

Hi Scott, thanks for the feedback – I have put in a link to a British slang site (it means to take…

Hi Scott, thanks for the feedback – I have put in a link to a British slang site (it means to take a bribe)

A modern day ‘howcatchem’

A modern day ‘howcatchem’ howcatchem — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_detective_story Let me be totally honest with you from the outset — I’ve always been a fan of Columbo. As a youngster in the late 70’s and 80’s, I loved spending Saturday evenings watching a dishevelled Peter Falk bumble and fumble around, trying to catch a perpetrator for some heinous crime…when we knew from the very beginning just whodunnit. Or at least we knew who did it but not why they did it…