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Choosing my religion

Posted Sunday, October 02, 2011  

In my late 20s, I met a group of people from a local church that impressed me. I have been devout for over a decade now however it has been a somewhat rocky road.

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Detecting unspecified method arguments in Ruby

Posted Monday, April 11, 2011  

I've tried several was to detect unspecified arguments in Ruby and finally settled on the least worst approach I could come up with.

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How I tell a story

Posted Thursday, August 05, 2010  

I've never really been that comfortable with the standard agile story format but not really known why. Recently I've realised that the problems I've had and the consequences with which I've had to battle are very simple: it's too easy to write a story that describes an implementation and largely misses the intent.

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About Simon

Husband, Father, One-time Entrepreneur.

Aka Haruki Zaemon. Aka Sampy.

In my younger years I wanted to save the world; now I'm happy solving bigger problems than I create.

If I didn't need to work I'd be teaching Aikido and spending all my free time with my amazing wife and two children in Tylden, Victoria, Australia.

Books

Beginning Algorithms
with James Ross

Software

Simian
Similarity Analyser

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