Author: Matt Jukes

  • Learning the value of agile

    Somewhat amusingly in the week that there seemed to be something of a backlash against ‘agile’ development methodologies I embarked on a programme of study towards the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Agile starting with a 2 day intro course and then followed up with 10 weeks of work-based coaching and weekly study groups. There are…

  • [ideadump] Web of Words conference

    This is an occasional series of posts where I just brain dump the ideas for side projects I really want to do but never seem to find the time to see through due to inconvenient things like the day job. Of all the weird and wonderful things the web provides the thing I am, and…

  • WEB XXV

    So today was the 25th anniversary of when Sir Tim wrote the first draft of the proposal that would lead to the birth of the ‘world wide web’. There has been plenty of coverage today about his call for a ‘bill of rights‘ to protect the freedom and independence of the web. It is noticeable…

  • Meet Mosaic

    I’ve been pretty busy recently – between work (aaarrggghhh) and failed personal projects (boohoo) so I am going to forgive myself for missing the launch of Mosaic (though not sure I can be excused by missing so much of the preamble.) Mosaic is a really interesting experiment, an appropriate term given the focus of its…

  • Fancamp

    an unconference for the comic-con crowd A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…well the 1930’s in London and New York anyway. Two different groups of science fiction fans got together to partake in the first two sci-fi conventions (and then rowed over who was legitimately first for years to come.) The Futurians…