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Web 2.0 is dead
Well I wish, but still people tout that idea of “Web 2.0″ technologies, and services in the vain hope that someone somewhere understands what their crack-addled words mean. I mean, what the hell is...
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Why I’m not leaving Perl right now…
I was going to join the party late and have a go with Python, but I get the feeling that I’m swapping a familiar syntax for a new one with the same problems. That’s coming off my To-do list…
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To Facebook or not… ?
I’ve been thinking about Facebook recently, mainly because I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with it. On the one hand it’s a blindingly simple idea that has been around for a long time, but has...
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When is a TV program the same ?
We’ve recently hit a problem based around a lack of clarity around the “equivalence” of assets. For people in the broadcast industry, this is an old chestnut, but I think it’s worth exploring here....
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Funny Character Task-force
Well since I’ve been cited (not in the police sense…) I should provide links, but more importantly I have to strongly back Greg’s lesson here. The lesson is simple, there are more characters that you...
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Automating Synergy Client Connections
A thing that has been driving me up the wall about my synergy setup at work is this. The main server is the Windows laptop that I use, which is fine when it’s docked, and when it’s mobile the server is...
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Bistromathics
Douglas Adams was right, the world is powered by ideas on the back of a napkin. In fact I wish people would do more of this. I didn’t know that one of it’s main uses would be to stop the “I can do that...
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The Funny Character Taskforce Rides again!
Amusingly I got a link to Joel Spolsky’s post on Unicode by one of my Italian colleagues. The punch line being that even though we both work for a European company (owned by a US company) we can’t seem...
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Every Project Starts with a Deadline
Everyone in Software is familiar with the “Iron Triangle”, the triumvirate of Time, Features (Functionality, or Scope), and Resource. In summary, these are the three factors that control any project,...
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The conciseness of the funny characters
Hacker news brought me the delights of this post on the point that the Chinese language can express more in fewer characters then English. Something I can vouch for which makes translation from English...
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