Changing my approach to presentations
I gave a presentation today and I think it was one of the worst I have ever given. This confuses me slightly, because I was talking about a subject I have talked about probably a hundred times over...
View Articlethe thing about homesickness
Is that it comes and goes... and it seemingly just takes one single thing to propel it into the foreground. I haven't really been homesick much this year, but I just watched this video by the amazing...
View ArticleFragments #1: Sunday afternoon
Sunday afternoon. You're walking home after getting off the train from Zürich, and you're carrying your bag in your hand instead of over your shoulder, because you're carrying all your stress in your...
View Articlethings I've learned, or relearned recently about Switzerland and New Zealand
Drinking According to this article, New Zealanders "all drank as if someone was about to take our beer away from us.” The often used stzbr expression, which expands to Stütz Bier when you put vowels...
View ArticleOne problem with Switzerland and my non-linear mind
Yesterday was such a beautiful day, that I went for a run. The first part of the run took me along the bank of the Sarine River in Fribourg. Incidentally, while I was running, I was listening to Gimme...
View Articlesoftware development with scrum at Liip
Some of you may already know, that Liip are using Scrum as our development methodology, and I'm the Scrum Master in my Scrum Team. I'm totally into Scrum, I think it's awesome. Anyway I wrote a very...
View ArticleThe Phoenix Foundation to play in Switzerland!
Long time readers of my blog will know that my most favourite band ever is Welly favourites, The Phoenix Foundation. So I am super excited that they are coming to Switzerland! For two shows! I wrote...
View Articlemocking the Symfony2 Request in phpunit tests
Today I ran into a problem that had me banging my head against desks for ages. I was writing a test case for a Controller to do with editing profile data. This was using the Symfony2 Forms Components....
View Articlemore referer search strings
It's been a while (almost 5 years!!) since I did this, and it always amuses me. So, here are a list of some of the funny search strings from the last few months, that lead people here: may your house...
View Articlelife update
So it's time for a woefully overdue update on some huge life changes! First, today is the first day of unemployment. I left Liip on Friday, after two great years, and will spend the next few months...
View ArticleThe thing about Github
After talking with Lukas on Thursday night, I realised that I've got a bit of a reputation as a Github hater. (As an aside, I seem to be often writing blog posts dispelling myths that people believe...
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Chorizo, prawn, chickpea and kumara stew
I was searching for a recipe online the other day (I can't remember what for) and accidentally came across a recipe for Chorizo, Chickpea and Kumara (Sweet Potato) Stew. It caught my attention and I...
View ArticleNew Zealanders: polite or overly timid?
I've recently been confronted with a few (for me at least) jarring examples of what I suspect are cultural differences between New Zealand and Germany. Basically, it all relates to being assertive or...
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how to make Laksa, Penny-style
In New Zealand, Malaysian restaurants are about every few hundred meters, I guess because we have a lot of immigration from Malaysia. At any rate, I ate in Malaysian restaurants a lot, and I would...
View ArticleBreastfeeding and the Tyranny of the Scales
Most mothers will gleefully tell you horror stories about birth. Anything from how many hours/days they were in labour to how they pooped in front of the doctor (or 10 doctors) and had their girl...
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