A Bit of Background
About Me and My Views on Software Development Welcome to my blog in which I express my opinions on software development which has been my career, man-and-boy. What's in this post? Who I am What I believe in Who Am I? My name is David Kerr, located in the London area with 20+ years experience in developing software in a diverse range of industries, including defence, medical, telecoms, finance and latterly managed print services. I started off programming Basic (woot!) and assembler on Commodore 64 's, breaking game loaders, writing games and mucking about with external hardware. Since then I've programmed in Pascal, C and C++. I currently develop in Java though I'm learning Scala and Dart at the moment. What do I Believe in? Focussing on my software development beliefs, a short summary is: - General Development Beliefs There are no absolutes in development. Period. There are always caveats and alternatives. I am not interested in wa