Director, Product Engineering at TELUS Health. Coding for 15+ years, a TDD advocate, PHP fan, with an interest in Complexity Theory and a History Degree.
We get commitment in product development all wrong! Commitment is a critical aspect of achieving strategic goals.
September 09, 2024A talk I gave at MongoDB.Local in Toronto on how MongoDB Atlas helped me and my team mature our software engineering practices.
April 30, 2024Sweden isn’t a country one immediately thinks of when considering the development of computers. However, it has a rich history in the field of computing dating back to the 19th Century.
October 04, 2022Software is to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th century. It is what drives our society forward and makes new opportunities possible.
August 16, 2022One of the first, or most prominent people, to work on a Big Data problem was Herman Hollerith. In the 1880s the US Census Bureau was struggling to process census data in a timely fashion.
June 06, 2022There are two important questions to ask about Charles Babbage, why did he fail to build his mechanical computers? And what can his failures teach computer scientists and businesses today?
May 23, 2022Kateryna Yushchenko studied Mathematics and in the 1950s became involved in the MESM project, the Soviet Union’s first computer.
April 08, 2022One of the great tragedies of any conflict is the damage it does to cultural and historical assets.
March 15, 2022It is well documented Charles Babbage was a difficult, belligerent and often quarrelsome man.
February 16, 2022The period between 1930 and 1960 can be regarded as a dividing line in history. A 30 year period which turned more than 2,000 years of human history on its head.
February 02, 2022Charles Babbage wasn’t remembered as fondly at the time of his death as he is today.
January 18, 2022