Published inFT Product & TechnologyA New Framework for Engineering Progression at the FTAt the Financial Times, we’ve recently updated the career framework for our engineers and managers. It’s clearer, simpler and more…Nov 17, 2025Nov 17, 2025
Published inFT Product & TechnologyThe Pragmatic Programmer book club finaleBack in August I wrote that we had started a book club to meet more of my colleagues and we that were going to read the 20th Anniversary…Jan 4, 2023Jan 4, 2023
Pragmatic Book Club: Chapter 9This book ends with Pragmatic Projects. This chapter kind of pulls together bits from the previous 8 chapters into a full project view. As…Dec 15, 2022Dec 15, 2022
Pragmatic Book Club: Chapter 8Before the project — After last week’s chapter about things to do while you are coding, this week we’re back into things to do around the…Dec 15, 2022Dec 15, 2022
Pragmatic Book Club: Chapter 6Sometime around October I had to take a break from leading the book club because my time got so extremely constrained that I could no…Dec 12, 2022Dec 12, 2022
Pragmatic Book Club: Chapter 5Chapter 5 — bend, or break. We’ve hit the much more practical programming advice, although perhaps the advice is not always easily…Oct 7, 2022Oct 7, 2022
Pragmatic Book Club: Chapter 4Chapter four, pragmatic paranoia. Now we’re getting into some more abstract and academic topics. Things we could think about introducing…Sep 15, 2022Sep 15, 2022
Pragmatic Book Club: Chapter 3I thought this was a pretty unchallenging chapter. Thanks in part to the success of this book, the sections (on the importance of plain…Sep 1, 2022Sep 1, 2022
Pragmatic Book Club: Chapter 2We split chapter 2: A pragmatic approach across two weeks in order to stick to our limit of one hour of reading and 45 minutes of…Aug 30, 2022Aug 30, 2022
