Fergie McDowallHackathons on festivals and feastdays: What Medieval England can Teach us about Software…Too often rulers fear the ruled. Consequently governments tend to thwart technology adoption in their population in order to protect a…Apr 10, 20182Apr 10, 20182
Fergie McDowallinHackerNoon.comGuilds, Ethics, and Software Engineering as one of The ProfessionsProgrammers like me shared some interesting stories on Reddit and Hacker News last week after a post by Bill Sourour went viral. In “The…Nov 22, 20165Nov 22, 20165
Fergie McDowallHow Good are the Office 365 APIs for Node.js?Those of us who lived through the dark years of SharePoint 2010 will remember the pain involved in trying to federate out content into…Oct 2, 20152Oct 2, 20152
Fergie McDowallInstall a Search Engine with NPMSearch engines have become democratised in the past couple of years. Its never been easier to get an instance of Elasticsearch or Solr up…Aug 13, 2015Aug 13, 2015
Fergie McDowallAn Introduction to Search-Index.jsI recently gave a presentation at the excellent Web Rebels conference in Oslo on search-index.js, which is a JavaScript library that allows…May 24, 2015May 24, 2015