Writing: Navigating a Route

The January issue of ACCU's C Vu magazine is out now. It contains my latest Becoming a Better Programmer column. This one is called Navigating a Route. It talks about how to learn a new codebase, navigate a routine into the system, and understand how to fix and extend the code correctly. It's a skill everyone needs!

Writing: The Advanced Coding Test

The latest issue of ACCU's CVu Magazine is out now. It contains my latest Becoming a Better Programmer column, The Advanced Coding Test. In it I present a thought experiment comparing the act of coding to driving. (Well, they do both occasionally lead to crashes, after all).

Writing: The Curious Case of the Frozen Code

The latest issue of ACCU's CVu Magazine is out now. It contains my latest Becoming a Better Programmer column, The Curious Case of the Frozen Code. I present an investigation of the (mythical) state of code freeze, and the edifices of development process we erect around it.

10,000 Monkeys (Cartoons)

I've been doodling wee cartoons on various coding topics for some time now. They've become pretty popular. Indeed, one of my Becoming a Better Programmer magazine columns was full of them.

I have set up a Tumblr blog for them. Feel free to stroll through the archives at petegoodliffe.tumblr.com.

Writing: The Art of Software Development

The latest issue of ACCU's CVu Magazine is out now. It contains my latest Becoming a Better Programmer column, The Art of Software Development. This time I present a fun little diversion for your reading delight, your visual delectation, and to stimulate your development prowess.

On the cover you can just about make out some pseudo-UML I once scribbled on a whiteboard in the vein hope of understanding someone else's tangled code structure.

Speaking: Worship Collective 2012

Adding to my speaking engagements this summer, I'll be leading a session at the Worship Collective conference at C3 in Cambridge.

I'll be taking a seminar for the keyboard players, where we'll look at technique, working in a band, attitudes, and a hand-picked selection of interesting, useful, and practical stuff.

Speaking: Mobile East

I'll be speaking at the Mobile East developer conference next week, on Advanced iOS Development.

Session details are here for your viewing pleasure. Selected highlights:


This presentation will take you from a basic level of understanding of iOS to look at advanced topics that will make you apps more polished, better designed and, ideally, more successful. 


Abstract concepts are no use, so in this talk we'll take some existing successful commercial iOS applications as a case study, and see how a selection of iOS technologies and techniques combine within it.