P is for Programming

At the beginning of December ThoughtWorks announced that all employees will receive a productivity allowance to be spent on anything that will make you more productive at work. This could be anything – a tablet, phone, laptop, SSD, etc. This e-mail had the interesting side-effect of pretty much killing productivity for the whole day – [...]

This is my attempt at a ‘year in review’ blog post – you know, the type of post that everyone says you shouldn’t do but still end up doing themselves. 2011 has been a really interesting year for me – there have been so many changes in my life it’s difficult to keep track of [...]

So my first month at ThoughtWorks has come and gone. I’ve also decided that I no longer like the look of my blog and did a complete redesign, which in the end resulted in me moving my entire blog to a new platform. What it’s like at ThoughtWorks In short, it’s exactly what I hoped [...]

I recently went through the ThoughtWorks interview process.  When I was starting the interview process I read quite a few blogs about what the interview process is like so I thought I would give an account of the process I went through. Keep in mind that my line of interviews was probably completely different to [...]

I think getting a folder like this would be a special moment in any developer’s life.  It certainly was in mine. I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted a position with ThoughtWorks.  This will obviously mean a major change in my life, since I will be leaving South Africa and moving to Chicago, [...]