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Primary contract - Barclays Capital - Developer with Equity Derivatives IT since Jan 2010, primarily in C++.

Presentations

ACCU conference 2012: "If it was hard to write ... a reflection on code reuse" - available as PDF.
ACCU conference 2011: "Some objects are more equal than others - a look at the many meanings of equality, value and identity" - co-presented with Steve Love and available as PDF.
ACCU conference 2010: "A Simple Matter of Configuration?" - available as PDF.
The New C++ standard - available as PDF.
ACCU conference 2009: "Refactoring Without Ropes" - available as PDF.
Keynote at the ACCU conference 2008: "Seven Deadly Sins of Debugging" - available as PDF.

I contribute occasional articles for the ACCU magazines C Vu and Overload.
Recent articles include:

I produced a paper A Theology of Mathematics during the 10-week 'The Christian in the Modern World' course at the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity in Autumn 2003.

If I didn't have any interests - like drama - I'd have time to write a decent Web page...but I do so I haven't.

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