Hi, world,

My name is Colin Yates and I am a Software Engineer. I am primarily interested in doing software engineering better. Why do we have such a dismal success rate. Successes are more often than not accidents, or at least unexpected ;) Why is that? Why is software so hard to do well? Technologies/processes I am interested in: spring, gradle, groovy, pragmatic development, testing and so on.

This blog will be a dumping ground for pretty much anything I think about that might be worth sharing. Or not.

One warning - I sometimes talk utter tosh, but just occasionally there are little nuggets in there as well. Good luck finding them! To be fair, I will try and separate my posts with a consistent set of tags.