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The Art of the KISS
Writing software that is simple, clean and easy is hard. KISS is easy to say but difficult to put into practice.
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Failure is an Option
Trial and error is the only way we learn. Taking chances (not risks) is how we evolve our knowledge and the output to which we are relied upon.
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Technical Debt – A visual guide
Unpicking the mystery of what technical debt is and how it can be provide learning and inform the future.
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True Story (2015)
As the title suggests, this movie is based on a true story, in fact, the book of the same name True Story. Michael Finkel was a New York Times journalist who was fired after fabricating a story on African child slavery. Disgraced and excommunicated from the writing community he is struggling to find a writing gig. While he struggles, he discovers there is a mass-family murderer, Christian Longo, has taken his…
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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
John Cusack in one of his finest and career defining roles. Martin Blank is a professional killer, a fact he never actually hides from anyone, yet people think it is so outlandish they don’t believe him. Martin is getting tired of the hitman business, particularly after one botched kill that was meant to look like natural causes ended up with multiple bullets in the chest, he is forced to do one…
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Local Hero (1983)
It was a Friday, and a Friday demands a classic for the evening and this evenings classic never fails to deliver. Local Hero, tells the story of an American coming over to Scotland to buy basically a whole town for subsequent oil exploration. Peter Riegert plays Mac, the American, more use to the hustle’n’bustle of oil dealing Houston than some highland community where everyone knows everyone and they have all multiple…
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Hot Pursuit (2015)
This movie travels the well trodden script path of a by-the-book-cop who isn’t allowed out on real cases due to a previous over zealous incident, suddenly finds herself in the midst of a high profile case where she has to go against everything she believes to get the job done. Reese Witherspoon takes on the role of Cooper, the by the book cop. The start sets up her character through a…
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Life of Brian (1979)
What more can be written about the Monty Python classic, Life of Brian? A firm favourite in any movie aficionado’s collection that just keeps giving and as it comes up for 40 years old, shows no more sign of aging than the day it was released. I refuse to believe there are people who do not know the story line, but just in case you have been in prison (or…
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Moon (2009)
Think more 2001 less Star Wars, as this one-man thriller will take you through the longevity of loneliness while challenging what you perceive as real and fiction and what it means to hold onto hope. Sam Bell, played excellently by Sam Rockwell, is an engineer that has been stationed on the Moon for a 3 year engagement to mine minerals to send back to Earth so it may be powered. His…
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She’s Funny That Way (2015)
Every so often a gem of a movie comes along that comes out of nowhere that completely surprises you and makes you wonder how you missed the publicity for it in the first place when it was released. She’s Funny That Way is what I would call a comedy farce. A movie that builds on its seemingly unrelated characters that slowly have their lives intertwined after various comedic encounters. Owen…
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A Few Best Men (2011)
Oh Olivia Newton-John, what were you thinking when you signed up for this script? What is an actress of your gravitas and legendary status doing in this disaster of a movie that invokes memories of the Sex lives of the Potato Men with its below toilet humor. Tell me there was a nasty tax bill you had to find some cash for and this was the best option next to…
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The Gunman (2015)
Sean Penn takes the lead in this truly cliched story with all the predictability of a Scooby Doo cartoon. He is part of a team that is providing security for a company in Africa. Naturally the security is a little more, especially when a hit on a government official is ordered and his team is ordered to perform said duty. Can you see where this is going? Good, will make…
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