The Toyota Way from Jeff Liker is a great book with excellent ideas about how to run a manufacturing organisation. Many of the ideas are transferable and as effective for activities outside of manufacturing.

5 Reasons Toyota Is Better At Lean Manufacturing Than You

When managers lack the skills to deliver.

Software delivery management is a technical discipline

Read this book if you need to lead your team, organisation to become proficient software developers.

Book Review: DevOps For The Modern Enterprise – Hering

Software engineers have access to an ocean of frameworks, but these frameworks have hidden costs that reveal themselves in the latter stages of an application's development.

The Framework Is Out To Screw You

Dylan McCarthy. We discussed the recent MS Build conference from Microsoft and the new AI frameworks and data products from Azure. Episode 2 of the Daniel Stojanov Podcast.

Podcast Episode 2 - Dylan McCarthy

Basarat Ali Syed. Interview on the Daniel Stojanov Podcast.

Podcast Episode 1 - Basarat Ali Syed

A brutal characterisation of corporate mismanagement and the decline of IBM.

Book Review: The Decline and Fall of IBM – Robert Cringely

ZenUML is a useful and simple tool to create sequence diagrams with minimal effort.

ZenUML: Sequence Diagrams as Code

VTK commands

Eighth article in a series on VTK, covering colour models.

Colour models used in VTK

An application created with VTK. We build on the previous topics covered in this series.

VTK: Example plotting application

Sixth article in a series on VTK covers geometric transformations of models.

VTK: Transformations

Fifth article in a series on VTK covers lookup tables.

VTK: Lookup tables

Why do the principles of manufacturing in the factory not apply to software engineering?

Software engineering is craftsmanship, not manufacturing

Article 4 in a series on VTK covering different data models and creating polygon data in VTK.

VTK Data: Creating polygon data

This second article in a series on VTK covers how to get setup and an overview of VTK.

VTK Example: Rendering a simply glyph

This second article in a series on VTK provides an overview of VTK and covers how to get setup.

VTK: High-level overview

A brief introduction to VTK, a library to create 3D visualisations. This is the first post in a series on the VTK toolkit.

VTK Python Tutorial Series: What is VTK?

We go in-depth on Python iterators, generators.

Python Iterators

What does a 150 year old infographic have to teach us about the human mind and how it remains unsurpassed by AI.

How To Beat AI In a ChatGPT World

A great introductory book to linear algebra. Suitable for beginners, but lacking in some areas covered by more modern texts.

Book Review: Linear Algebra – Shilov

Learn the Python for loop. We cover the syntax, some of its inner workings, and useful auxiliary functions.

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