I am surprised to learn of a minimum statutory notice period in employment law, defined by the Employment Rights Act 1996 §86; it’s one week/year subject to a 12 week cap, if you’ve worked for them for over two years. This may not be over-ridden by the contract of employment and will apply if the reason for termination/dismissal is redundancy. For more, press the “Read More” button. Continue reading “Guaranteed minimum notice”
When I first heard the phrase “Technical Debt”, I nearly fell of my chair, but recently, a couple of articles have passed me by and I thought I’d have look and think about if it helps address the intractable problem of maintaining legacy technology, but particularly applications code. The problem is that to make changes, one often has to amend code that’s already in use. This increases the cost of the project. The increase in cost to new projects is part of the “Technical Debt”, however, it’s basically a metaphor. Is the problem one that financial management tools, can be used to improve the understanding of? Does this apply better to code that one has development rights to, rather than packages or infrastructure? Here as every are my notes and links. Continue reading “Technical Debt”
Some notes on Python Pickle. See below/overleaf. Continue reading “Python/pickle”
I find it hard to believe, but I have not yet posted my soundtrack of the Internationale which I use as a ring tone to this wiki. Well, here it is!
For more see also ringtones and revolution, which talks about the film and Finland Station and explains the featured image.
It’s meant to be small and fast, but I want to run it as a virtual box guest. I have suspended this project, but here are my notes. Continue reading “About Porteus, yanf Linux”
I was always disappointed when Microsoft removed some of the emoji’s from the skype set, I particularly liked the smoking, lalala and mooning icons, here is the mooning icon.
I might look for the other two another time.
A British payment processor for managing direct debits accessible it seems to charities and maybe political parties. Here are my notes … Continue reading “Donating with Gocardless”
On Venezuela, where the US would seem to be trying to engineer another regime change in support of their oil industry, here are my notes and my diigo bookmarks . I consider sanctions, human rights and democracy … Continue reading “Venezuela”
The Dyson enquiry into the planning consent for the New Bermondsey project has reported.
These are links, let’s hope they stay there. (They didn’t and Lewisham don’t use the wayback machine.)