Masa Bristol - A great sushi place

Happy New Year to all.

To celebrate, I’ve just eaten some excellent sushi at Masa in Bristol. Really nice and cozy and some wonderful cooking too!

Christmas holidays

Have a good end to the year!

I’m in Ireland for the holidays making the most of my time off and the awesome hospitality at my girlfriends home.

Next year I am planning to get away at least once for a spot of snowboarding, buy a tv, take first steps into the world of I.T. Architecture, save up loads for a house and possibly brew my own beer. Whether I complete all of that is another story. See you all in the new year!

Cooking simple but hearty food

I am following this food blog.

http://www.rkfood.blogspot.com/

Made a lovely recipe from it. No fuss no hassle. Good food. See if you can spot which one I made.

Crazy microwave

We have a crazy microwave at home that seems to count in the hundreds?! Not regular time but in hundreds. Cool you may think, the microwave is compliant with metric time! But no. Only the first hundred is observed after that it reverts to regular sixty second time.

I'm With You

I have the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album, I’m With You, and I’ve been listening to it on repeat for a week.

The Tariq Effect

Picture the scenario: You’re working on a high profile account work millions of Pounds in charge of a team of skilled developers all working to create the client’s next generation system. You have to interface with different teams throughout the project as is the nature with any large delivery project. Teams such as Business Analyst team, Rules team, Business Process Management team and a CRM team. All teams are working harmoniously with each other. Sure they have issues and blockers and sometimes your code needs a rethink but nothing out of the ordinary considering the project is of a fair size.

Wet Berlin

Berlin is lovely, but very wet. I blame the best man for organising some of the worst weather for a stag do ever.

Off to Berlin

I’m off to Berlin for the weekend for a good friend’s stag do.

Unit Testing

Hello again!

I wanted to share with everyone the importance of the V model approach to testing. I’ve seen a lot of places (and people) who don’t understand this approach so this is my way of explaining it.

New blog name

I’m thinking about changing the name of my blog. Big move - maybe? But I’m pretty sure I can do that with the Blogger engine. I guess the only thing to worry about is updating people’s links. But no one reads this blog anyway so what’s the problem?