David Coveney

I came across this chart recently and it gave me pause for thought as someone whose life work is designed to improve productivity. It shows that from 2008, although we know technologies have been...

https://davidcoveney.com/9456/the-productivity-paradox/

The Heroku platform is an absolutely fantastic way to have to not bother with devops within a small development company. We’ve been using it at interconnect for years now, and whilst it’s not...

https://davidcoveney.com/9238/off-cloud-backup-for-heroku-apps-a-possible-answer/

Having a coronary artery bypass isn't much fun and comes with challenges. Four years later I thought I'd describe some more of my experiences.

https://davidcoveney.com/3691/recovering-from-a-heart-bypass-the-physical-and-mental-challenges/

Could VW really be in trouble, if they're cancelling a factory and pushing back a car launch? I don't think so, but they're not entirely in the clear...

https://davidcoveney.com/7572/are-vw-in-trouble-with-their-electric-car-strategy/

At 18 I was skint and got made homeless. It took a lot of graft, patience and mistakes to get out of that and into a moderate middle class lifestyle. Here's how.

https://davidcoveney.com/5550/steps-and-missteps-on-my-path-out-of-poverty/

About a decade ago, I was at a conference and talking to a fellow developer (I still call myself one, even though I don’t code so much these days) when he giddily told me about the funding he�...

https://davidcoveney.com/3806/interesting-times-in-the-world-of-software/

A year ago, I was sitting, shorn of all body hair and waiting to go in for a five or six hour operation. I knew the next two weeks would be hell.

https://davidcoveney.com/3667/i-broke-my-heart-in-five-places-and-got-it-fixed/

In my previous post, I discussed the importance of separating wealth from income, and to stop beating up a chap called Rob Barber who made the mistake of having a high income but not feeling rich...

https://davidcoveney.com/3657/the-great-pension-scam-how-people-were-conned-and-how-young-people-fixed-it/

There’s a bloke who’s been on Question Time who makes £80k a year and claimed he’s not in the top 5%. Which clearly makes him a moron and a subject of derision, right? Sock it to the wealt...

https://davidcoveney.com/3651/wealth-income-and-why-that-bloke-on-question-time-with-80k-was-wrong-and-right/

A short screenplay, by me. It’s a Monday morning at a small train station on a mainline. It’s bustling as business travellers head to London for their week’s business. The air is cool, with...

https://davidcoveney.com/3604/the-eu-are-bullying-the-uk/

Last night was the count for the local by-election, in which I stood as a Liberal Democrat candidate. I lost. I came third. And I’m OK with that. But this isn’t a political blog, at all, even...

https://davidcoveney.com/3589/why-learning-to-lose-is-the-path-to-winning/

People do like to look back angrily, don’t they? Yet many a time, their anger today doesn’t reflect how they really felt back then. If you look at the Iraq War, and the UK’s involvement in ...

https://davidcoveney.com/3560/why-political-parties-lose-support-in-power-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/

Ever noticed that there's a group of people who don't vote? Good people, by and large... but they don't vote. Eventually, I think I worked it out.

https://davidcoveney.com/3546/our-office-cleaner-doesnt-vote-i-think-i-know-why/

One of the funny things about children and their memories is just how fallible they are. Full of false memories and forgotten realities. I lived, for a while, somewhere on the outskirts of Dougla...

https://davidcoveney.com/3531/staleys-in-the-isle-of-man/

Hi guys, I suspect you know why I’ve called you in here for this meeting. Adam, Larry, uhm… hat guy… you know that costs have been rising and, what with piracy and everything we just don’...

https://davidcoveney.com/3418/bonos-office-some-time-in-2014/

Yesterday, finally, after a break of nearly four years, I returned to the race track. Not for a competitive event, but for a track day. And I learned a little… The scene has changed. Maybe. Tr...

https://davidcoveney.com/3409/what-a-difference-a-tyre-makes-mini-review-of-yokohama-advan-neovas-on-track/

So, Liverpool Central Library has had a revamp. The reading room was always ace, but had been closed for ages and I’d not been able to show it to friends. It’s now all been lovingly restored,...

https://davidcoveney.com/3253/liverpool-central-library/

Something odd has started to happen on Twitter for me, and it’s cutting my usage of it down quite dramatically. Why? It’s because it seems the spammers are winning… @majorie6474 @davecovene...

https://davidcoveney.com/3199/twitter-is-about-to-die/

I promised, ages ago, that I’d write up some tips on how to find somebody who’d gone missing in South America. Recently I had an email from somebody in the same situation which has spurred me...

https://davidcoveney.com/3025/finding-a-missing-person-in-south-america/

Imagine, you arrive at the restaurant. It’s slick, it’s luscious. Wonderful smells assault your nose. You’re hungry. Very hungry. This is going to be great! So, you sit down, the waiter com...

https://davidcoveney.com/2634/what-its-like-to-dine-out-when-youre-veggie/