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25Apr07

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Apparently An Taoiseach thinks that we’re the laughing stock of Europe for not rolling out eVoting (see this RTE News article). Hmm… I’m sure they’re having a good laugh at us in France right now where their Nedap voting machines, the same ones we currently have in warehouses, are causing [...]

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BarCamp Dublin Report

22Apr07

BarCamp Dublin took place yesterday. It was my first BarCamp but certainly won’t be my last. It was a lot of fun and there was a great turnout. The venue in the Digital Exchange building, part of the Digital Hub in Dublin, was a good one but there were persistent internet connectivity problems throughout the [...]

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Your Marks Out Of 10 Please

12Apr07

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Something I’ve been meaning to comment on for quite a while now has been some of what I experienced a few months ago while hunting for a new job1.
One of the thing that really got to me was the number of times I was asked to rate my various skills out [...]

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Premature Optimization

15Mar07

A former colleague of mine was recently trying to sort out a question in his head once and for all: which is better, declaring a variable inside a loop or outside of a loop? A Google search lead him to this thread on Javalobby and knowing my feelings on the subject he thought I’d find [...]

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Ruby Newbie at Ruby Tuesday

14Feb07

I went to my first Ruby Tuesday meeting of the Ruby Ireland user group last night at La Taverna di Bacco in the grandly named Italian Quarter1 just off Ormonde Quay here in Dublin. There was a pretty sizeable turnout for this relatively new and small but growing group. We did manage to [...]

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