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“A dev walks into a bar,” says Cranmore developer Erin MacDonald. “Then crawls in, dances in, and walks in backwards. He orders a beer, two beers, then 9,999. He asks for it in a glass, a cup, then a shoe..."

Meet senior developer Damien Earle, who's mind is often on the bigger things.

He tells us his favourite place is Capri as we discuss his background for Source Code. It makes sense.

Speaking to the veteran coder Ameer Ibrahim, its a huge surprise that he believes he still has much to learn.

How can a background in musical theatre help you as a project manager? Well, let's ask Justine...

“I don’t like grey areas,” says Cranmore developer Jack Kilburn, who believes coding is more science than art.  

“Crafting a great piece of code is like writing a catchy guitar riff,” says Cranmore’s product architect Steven Graham.

What is Google-fu, and what does the code used by hackers in movies actually say? We find out there isn't much Cameron Stevenson doesn't know.

We’ve all met those people for whom difficult things just seem… easy. And it’s infuriating.

Today, easy fixes and shortcuts are everywhere. But there is still value in figuring out problems ourselves… right?

“I said, shortly after I started, that one day there’s no reason we can’t ring the bell for Cranmore,” says Cranmore’s bid architect Enda O’Brien.

School, uni, job, promotion, promotion, promotion, retire. What they don’t teach you in school is that this is not the usual order of things. If anything, it’s rare.

“I don’t have a very exciting life.” It’s the first thing Toby Black says when we sit down for Source Code. But – spoiler – there’s more to it…

For some, change is scary. For Chris Meja, change is a way of life.

Creative people are not organised and organised people are not creative. This heuristic is one your writer has clung to for some time - but maybe we're wrong...

Breaking news, software development is problem solving. Yes, hardly news. The truth is everything is problem solving. Life is problem solving.