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Dave Ogle

Hi, I'm Dave, a Senior Developer at Scott Logic, based in Edinburgh. I'm a full stack developer with particular experience developing front end applications. I enjoy problem solving, Jazz, Star Trek and single malt whiskeys, not necessarily in that order.

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Tech
A Journey into Wasm
A brief look into building out a NextJS application which makes use WebAssembly to solve Advent Of Code puzzles in the browser.
Dave Ogle · 3rd  Jan · 5 min read
People
Working in a blameless culture
A blameless culture can have a huge positive impact on the way your team works, both internally and with others. In this post I'll explore what a blameless culture is, why it's important and how to promote it within your own team.
Dave Ogle · 6th  Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Tech
My Top Ten Tips for Peer Review
For many of us peer review is an everyday part of software development, but why do we bother and how can we do it well? In this post I share my top tips for peer reviewing code.
Dave Ogle · 26th  Jun 2023 · 5 min read
Tech
The Good, The Bad and the Easy?
In this post I'll try to lay out some requirements for 'good' code, talk about how we might define 'easy' code and how this correlates with a definition of 'good' code.
Dave Ogle · 26th  Nov 2020 · 15 min read
Tech
Create, Test, Integrate and Deploy a React App in under 10 minutes!
In this blog post I'll be demonstrating how quickly it's possible to setup, integrate and deploy a React application using the right tools.
Dave Ogle · 3rd  Sep 2020 · 9 min read
Tech
JavaScript Closure
In this blog post I'll be exploring Lexical Scope in JavaScript and answering the question "What is Closure?"
Dave Ogle · 23rd  Feb 2018 · 7 min read
Data Engineering
Looking At R
In this quick look at the R language and tools I'll look briefly at the syntax of the language and have a go at creating a few charts with a data set.
Dave Ogle · 31st  Jan 2018 · 13 min read
Tech
Apache Storm Taster
A quick look at Apache Storm with a short word count walk-through example using a Redis Database.
Dave Ogle · 29th  Jan 2018 · 18 min read
Data Engineering
Cassandra vs. MariaDB
We've been comparing Cassandra and MariaDB in single node setups, exploring the issues of each in terms of performance and ease of use from a development perspective. In this article we explore the issues at play in such a setup such as the differences in queries, speed of response and the features that seperate these two technologies.
Dave Ogle, Laurie Collingwood · 1st  Mar 2017 · 12 min read