Why Programmers Should Play Boardgames
17/07/2018 Close the laptop and break out the dice...after you read this post about how board games can help ease your troubled dev mind.
Blog
Most of my blog posts dating back to 2002. Some written here, some written elsewhere and aggregated here.
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Creating Your Own Whimsical Twitter Bot With Tracery
29/06/2018Read this fun article about how to create a Twitter bot with Tracery. -
What Is Blockchain?
26/06/2018The world and its dog has gone crazy for blockchain (and related technologies, which is a whole other post). The past two years have been a hype roller coaster for the technology with stories of equally insane valuations, technical proposals, media exposure, regulatory nightmares, frauds, and unrealized dreams. -
Discovering the True Meaning of Innovation with Login Festival
26/06/2018Check out what we can learn about creativity and innovation from some of the more unorthodox talks given at Login Festival. -
Fostering Open Source at FOSS Backstage
19/06/2018Zone Leader Chris Ward give a recap on some of the highlights of the FOSS Backstage Conference, on security, cost, empathy, and more. -
Computational Knowledge With Stephen Wolfram
14/06/2018For decades Wolfram has created tools to help scientists, mathematicians, and programmers get answers. We speak with Stephen about his work and computational computing. -
A guide to the hybrid cloud networking landscape
12/06/2018If you are employing cross datacenter or a[hybrid cloud infrastructure](https://www.exoscale.com/virtual-private-cloud/), then your containers, services, and endpoints need to be able to communicate with each other, preferably in the most straightforward and fastest ways possible. This post showcases some of the options available to you, and how they compare. -
What Can Software Foundations Bring to Your Project?
06/06/2018Find out the important roles that software foundations play in providing longevity and structural support for open source projects. -
Customizing Sublime Text for Writers
28/05/2018Are you using the Sublime Text editor? If so, you may want to rethink this. One man gives his opinion on Sublime and gives several other options you can choose from. -
FOSS Backstage – For Everyone in Open Source
21/05/2018FOSS Backstage is a new conference for open source developers and managers. Find out more information about the conference here. -
Is Quitting Bad Software as Hard as Becoming Vegan?
15/05/2018Just how far are you willing to go not to use software that you disagree with? Chris Ward takes a look down the rabbit hole. -
Ethics for Designers and Developers at The First Berlin Ethical Tech Meetup
14/05/2018Trade your developer hat for your philosopher's cap and take a look at the ethics of weaponized tech design and engineering. -
Blueprint: Transferring Customer Support Requests Between Facebook Pages
09/05/2018Maintaining conversations between multiple channels is a difficult challenge for customer support departments. Often companies launch different Facebook pages to enable their audience(s) to find the right type of engagement at the right time. However, this poses a problem when your audience starts to ask questions on a Facebook page not related to the purpose of that page. A customer looking for support might visit your Facebook marketing page, comment on an existing post, create a new post or... -
News from KubeCon and Cloud Native Con 2018
07/05/2018Straight from KubeCon and Cloud Native Con 2018, here are some of the most exciting announcements from Microsoft, Cloud 66, Bitnami, and others. -
The Promises, Payoff, and Products of Hybrid Clouds
02/05/2018With more complications than initially expected, public and private cloud infrastructures are quickly giving way to their combination: hybird clouds. -
Ready for Bionic Beaver? What's New in Ubuntu 18.04
01/05/2018This week brought the release of the latest version of Ubuntu - 18.04 - so read up on the details about the newest LTS release. -
Production-Scale Deep Learning With Skymind
30/04/2018Skymind combines open-source and custom tooling to create two main toolchains that integrate well with other frequently used tools in the data science tool bag. -
The Promises, Payoff, and Products of Hybrid Clouds
26/04/2018The cloud promised to provide us all flexibility. The opportunity to access infinite resources as and when we need them and pay accordingly. We would no longer have to spend time installing, configuring and maintaining servers; we were promised more time to “just code.” -
Will Linux (Finally) Win the Desktop War Because No One Else Cares?
13/04/2018As Apple and Microsoft lose enthusiasm for their desktop operating systems, will it be time for Linux to shine? Or do Linux enthusiasts even care about winning the desktop war anymore? -
Tokenize All the Things and What Happens Next?
12/04/2018Communities and entrepreneurs are excitedly creating crypto-tokens for a wide variety of inane and practical purposes. We look at what this could mean for our future. -
The International Crypto Community Comes to Berlin
03/04/2018Zone Leader Chris Ward looks forward to upcoming C3 Crypto Conference in Berlin which offers keynotes, workshops, and exhibitions on the cryptocurrency ecosystem and underlying blockchain technology. -
Customizing Visual Studio Code for Writing
02/04/2018Are you a technical writer or dev who needs to create documentation around your project? Check out these extensions you can integrate into VS Code that can help. -
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Do We Need the World's First Emotional Processing Unit? [Audio]
28/03/2018Emoshape has created what they call the first emotional processing unit (EPU) dedicated to understanding and putting a value on human emotions. -
What Is DesignOps?
27/03/2018As a writer/tech writer/sometimes developer who dabbles in the odd bit of illustration and design, I have often wondered how teams of artists collaborate. -
SXSW Part 2- Fixing Tech, AI, and Startups
24/03/2018In Part 2 of this round on SXSW, Chris looks at what people had to say about machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the problems with tech. -
SXSW Part 1- Blockchain and SpaceTech
21/03/2018We hear promises of how blockchain will revolutionize tech, but most of its applications thus far seem rather mundane. Read on to see what devs are doing to change that. -
Tutorial: Using the Messenger Webview to create richer bot-to-user interactions
16/03/2018Developers are building many different types of experiences in Messenger, and while messaging is at the core of a bot's architecture, the Messenger webview provides devs with the flexibility to incorporate elements of their webpage experience into their app. Whether you're looking to add a checkout flow, share a new product page, or simply distribute content, the webview opens up a world of possibilities to create richer interactions. -
DocFX- The Next Documentation Tool to Consider?
11/03/2018In this post, we take a look at a new version of Markdown, DocFX Flavored Markdown, and how it can be used to create documentation for REST APIs. -
An Interview With Brian Gracely on Red Hat's Acquisition of CoreOS...
07/03/2018Chris Ward interviews OpenShift's product strategy director Brian Gracely about Red Hat's recent announcement of their acquisition of CoreOS. -
Mobile World Congress 2018 - Consolidation and Collaboration
06/03/2018Read about the most exciting developments from this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, like IoT, Google assistant, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.