Good to see that Activehotels, the company at which I cut my dot-com teeth, have started a travel blog. Not sure if it lives up to its tagline yet – ‘Travelectomy – removing the dull parts of travel’ – but we’ll be watching… Not that they’ll listen to me again, but all you activehotels bloggers, [...]

Interesting presentation from Adam Bosworth, VP of Google, talking about how the way to win is not through a 5-year plan, but through confidence in your ability to ‘intelligently react’. The gem in this speech – though not its main subject – is that there is no useful distinction between operations and development. Successful development [...]

Revieworld is growing and desk-space is getting tight. So, my desk having been usurped by one of the development team, I find myself blogging from the small round table that we also use for improptu meetings. It’s much smaller than my previous desk with neither drawers nor filing space. So I’ve transferred my files to [...]

Last night I read Behind Closed Doors – a book about technical management that I’d actively recommend to anyone, technical or not. It’s great to read a management book that focuses on my own mantra: people over process every day. Now if I could just live by that…

My favourite development tale this week.