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Contract Info

• Primary contract - Nomura International - Senior Developer with Equity IT until early Jul 2008
• Ongoing contract - QA Ltd as an associate lecturer since 1993, lecturing Advanced C++ Development Techniques and Java Programming courses.
  (formerly in OS/2 programming)

I am member of the British Computer Society (MBCS), and belong to their special interest group "ICC" ('Independent Computer Contractors'), a member of the BSI C++ panel and hence of the ISO C++ panel and also a member of (Association of C/C++ Users) I am an MVP ('Most Valuable Professional') for BrainBench.com in C++

Text of Articles

Keynote at the ACCU conference 2008: "Seven Deadly Sins of Debugging" - available as Open Office or PDF .

Presentation at the ACCU conference 2008: "Network Programming - writing programs in a networked world" - available as Open Office or PDF .

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

• Dec 2007 - Java Protocol Handlers
• Aug 2007 - Release Mode Debugging
• Oct 2006 - Threads and Sharable Libraries
• Oct 2004 - Microsoft Visual C++ and Win32 structured exception handling
• Jun 2004 - Efficient Exceptions?
• Feb 2003 - An introduction to optimising programs (Selected as "Best C Vu Article" in the 2003 ACCU Authors' Competition)

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.

Complete index of articles.

Interests

What's the time?

Raindrops

C++

• C++ moderated newsgroup (or via Google)
• C++ standards newsgroup (or via Google)
• Microsoft WinDbg newsgroup (or via Google)
• Brainbench Transcript

The Internet ("Information consumes attention")

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