Dafydd's Homepage 31 August 2003
keywords: Dafydd Rees, personal homepage
Professional
Over the last eight years, I've worked at modelling systems and application domains using object-technology, UML, algebraic methods and with rules-based software. In the past, I've worked as a programmer at BT. Before that I did research and teaching at the University of Wales Swansea. The rest of my history is on my old CV.
What I'm doing these days:
- Working on the extreme team at Wireless Data Services.
- Playing with Smalltalk (Dolphin and Squeak) and Python.
Here are some cool-but-old ideas that I like. It's quite sad that most developers still don't see the point of these:
- Extreme Programming
- Very dynamic, high-level languages particularly Smalltalk, Lisp and Prolog
- Building applications with active object models
- Transaction-safe, object persistence
Personal
I haven't had a lot of time to myself over the last few years, but I like weight-lifting and learning to do aikido.
If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy!
The UK government passed the RIP act. I am worried. Take five minutes to find out what's at stake. During the campaign against the RIP act I "got with the program" by adopting my MP. Commonsense eventually prevailed in the US over the CDA bill - such a shame it didn't here in the UK.
It's an Open-ended Web
Best viewed with whatever it is that you're using. Really. The people behind www.anybrowser.org explain why.
The Welsh Phrases Page
I'm a speaker of the Welsh language. I have digitised a page of simple Welsh phrases. The Welsh phrases comes under the "fun section" of this website.
I am Welsh, but:
- I do not play rugby,
- I do not sing, and
- I do not mine coal.
Jokes about rugby, singing and mining are passé.
Contacting Me
- The web feedback form will send a message to my email account and my phone.
- Please don't copy my email address out onto other web pages. I've tried many devious strategies for publishing my email in a form that spambots can't read, but unfortunately there is a breed of e-hustler that is prepared to manually insert my address into their database of suckers.
- If I'm on-line you can use Yahoo messenger to contact me, under the name dafydd_ll_rees:
Before you contact me:
- OOP and Program Design Questions
- Some information to help you help yourself is available here on Java and Unix/Linux.
- Genealogists (Particularly from North America)
- There are lots of people named Rees in Wales. I don't know of any relatives with the name Rees who emigrated to North America.Sorry. (The National Library of Wales can help you with Welsh genealogy data.) I have one English great-grandfather (but we don't talk about him.)
"The structure appears simple, but the trick is you have to know it's going to work."- Ian Liddell
(E. Wilhide, The Millennium Dome, Harper-Collins, 1999)
