Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

The Software Engineer

As I go through the process of reviewing CVs for a software engineer position we have open, and keep seeing acronym list after acronym list, I'm reminded of the discrepency that seems to exists

Read more

Surviving in Andalucia

If you want to survive living in Andalucia, in southern Spain, you're going to need, in addition to a huge amount of patience, the following:

A darn good battery backup for your computers. Every time

Read more

Mac: WorkStrip

WorkStrip by Softchaos, which at first glance appears to be a Dock replacement, is a surprisingly useful productivity tool. Using WorkStrip, one can create and configure "work spaces," which, when

Read more

Cultural Differences?

My friend Neal, who lives in the United States, broke his finger recently, and was telling me about his treatment. I was kinda shocked at the contrast with respect to my own treatment, living in

Read more

Mac: Bookit

Owning both an Apple G5 desktop computer, and a Powerbook, I have to deal with the issue of browser bookmark synchronization. I tried .Mac synchronization with Safari, but found it to be less than

Read more

Weblog Redesign 2005

There's a big proposal that I should have been working on today, but after three weeks at it, I just couldn't stand to open the word processor this morning. So, instead, I decided to give a go at

Read more

Montes de Málaga

Once again we ventured out with the Senderitos.com crowd for a weekend hike, to the beautiful "Montes de Málaga," about an hour's drive from Marbella.

And what a beautiful October day it was, sunny

Read more

MakaluMedia team up with The Playaz

Eight years of sweat, blood and dedicated hard work has finally paid off big time for the company (and I do mean BIG TIME), as MakaluMedia has been chosen by none other than The Playaz themselves

Read more

Pico de Juanar, Marbella

It's pretty amazing what kids are capable of doing. Today, we went on hike, again with the folks from Senderitos.com, and watched a group of kids hike for over five hours, including a climb of

Read more

El Torcal in Antequera, Spain

I am constantly impressed with the variety of interesting places to visit in southern Spain. This past weekend we took a day trip out to the amazing Torcal.

The El Torcal Nature Reserve is located

Read more