Kirk's Rants

I code. I used to be super-hardcore in Silicon Valley. I moved to London, sold out and worked for financial services companies. Now back to the startup life. Here's where I rant at nobody in particular.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The Ivy Tutorial Strikes Back

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We're continuing on with the Jim Moores Guest Post series, as Ivy proceeds to destroy his source code directory. After my previous pr...

Ant, Ivy 2.0.0, and java.net.UnknownHostException

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This is a Very Special Guest Post by Jim Moores , another one of the OpenGamma team. We thought this would be useful to the interwebs, and u...

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Dress Code Wars Episode IV: The Suits Strike Back

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Wow. What a bit of a crazy couple of days since my last rant on the absurdity of forcing developers to work under dress codes . It hit Prog...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Software Developers Should Never Have Dress Codes

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On Saturday, I visited my dry cleaner . [1] Normally this wouldn't be a particularly momentous occasion [2], except that it was the fir...

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Hardcore Once More

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I've mentioned a few times that I've been working on Something Big, and it's time for me to expose myself a little more publicl...

Friday, July 31, 2009

Big Banks: Embrace Entrepreneurial Techies

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After I had been made redundant by Investment Bank A, and before starting at Big Bank B, I interviewed with a Large Teutonic Bank's cap...

Thursday, July 30, 2009

You can has tweets

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Now that my tenure at Big Bank B is drawing to a close (more of which anon when I actually have interesting technical bits to discuss), I...

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