Of course, most people remember 2006 as the United Nations International Year of Deserts and Desertification, but that wasn’t all that was happening. Some American chaps launched Twitter, Italy won the world cup, and who can forget Lasagnagate? Meanwhile, somewhere in an overpriced, under-cleaned London flat, Kester decided that perhaps he didn’t really want to spend the rest of his career filling out spreadsheets for some quango or another; it was time to skill up. A degree, a masters, and too much time spent with IE6 later, he winds up as a software engineer at NCR.
As Kester looks back on all those late nights struggling with discrete mathematics, the days of pain with spring config files, neural networks that just don’t work, the despair of enterprise CSS, the confounding nuances of type coercion in JavaScript, and the sheer horror of dbunits, he takes comfort in the fact that without these travails, he wouldn’t have a job at NCR and the free bacon rolls that comes with it. Beyond free bacon rolls Kester is interested in building on his Java and JavaScript development experience to deliver quality software, with a particular interest in delivering high quality, maintainable UI code.