I was a beautifully warm night in late December down in Jervis Bay. My friends and I had rented a holiday house for the New Years weekend and we had…
David Klemke
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The last thing you want as a developer is your code to go out into the wild before its ready. When that happens people start to build expectations on a…
David Klemke
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It’s really easy to fall into the trap of trying to build something you think is simple that ends up being a complicated mess. Us engineers are amongst the most…
David Klemke
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I’ve found that no matter how hard you try to keep the quality of your blog high you’ll eventually end up posting something that’s utter crap, even more so if…
David Klemke
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I’m not sure why but I get a little thrill every time I see something that’s been completely automated that used to require manual intervention from start to finish. It’s…
David Klemke
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Telstra was a brilliant example of why natural monopolies should never be put in the hands of private share holders. Whilst the situation has improved quite dramatically over the past…
David Klemke
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I’ve had quite a few phones in my time but only 2 of them have ever been Nokias. The first was the tiny 8210 I bought purely because everyone else…
David Klemke
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The engineer in me loves looking for efficiencies. So when after the first 1.0 version of Lobaco was good enough for me to call it “done” (in the sense that…
David Klemke
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I consider myself to be pretty good at video games. More often than not I’ll go for the hardest difficulty setting as otherwise the game will just feel too easy…
David Klemke
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Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to be involved in a piece for the Canberra Times on salaries in the ACT, thanks wholly to my journalist friend who set…