Some of the most useful ideas at work do not begin as official projects. They start as small experiments: a frustration, a gap, or a question of “wouldn’t it be useful if…?” That is exactly how two of my recent side projects began. In my spare time, I built ReviewG33k Read more
The Idea As one of the new graduates in the company, we (Alex, Ethan, and myself (Max)) worked on an orientation project as a team. This was a tool to load pdfs and use machine learning techniques to analyze and categorize the pages into one of a predetermined number of Read more
Mako’s Doxygen Documentation The Mako SDK has quite a large surface area, all diligently commented by our engineers to produce Doxygen documentation. Having all this high-quality documentation at our customers’ fingertips is one of the strong benefits of our SDK. This all sounds great, but some feedback that we hear Read more
Background The Covid – 19 lockdown made me think of new ways to entertain and engage my boys aged 6 and 8. With a room full of plants, there’s a question that popped up in my youngest’s mind, why are we giving same amount of water to all the different Read more
Washing hands has never been more important, we all need to do it right. The proper process involves rubbing soap and water over every surface of your hands, and taking a full 20 seconds to do the job. A no touch, sound activated 20 second timer can help with getting Read more
The Goal – Quality Software The teams at Global Graphics Software spend a long time and a lot of effort making sure our code is as ‘bullet proof’ as possible. Developers write unit tests to ensure each area of low-level code is working as expected, and integration tests drive behaviour Read more
MEF and .NET Standard I’ve been working on a new side project recently which has really got me excited again! There’s not too much to tell about it just yet, but one of its aims is to create a highly configurable and modular way of creating screening workflows. As a Read more
My current role sees me as a principal engineer, but in previous roles, I’ve also been a ScrumMaster and try as I might, I can’t quite throw off that ScrumMaster mindset. Recently I’ve been looking at our Scrum process, and it seems that since the transition of our final team Read more
The Beginning So this is it – My first Arduino project! After months of seeing YouTube videos and Twitter updates from people working on their own Arduino projects, I finally bit the bullet and bought my own ‘starter kit’ from Amazon. I didn’t just want to make an LED flash Read more
Around the office, we have a few people using height adjustable desks. Every day, some of us get to see them going up and down, like waves rising and falling on a rough sea. Each time being controlled using the hardware buttons on the side of the desk. Then came Read more