The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You - “You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents…” - how [...]
Lazy Evaluation in Java - “we appreciate your interest, but there is no room for laziness in our evaluation. We’re looking for people who put their heads down and do what they’re told without trying to game the system.” - a vision of hell
Cocoa Dev Central: Learn Cocoa - Really simple Cocoa tutorial for the [...]
Macworld UK are reporting that O2 have doubled call and text allowances for iPhone contracts including existing ones. I’m on the £35 per month plan, which means that my free calls have tripled to 600 minutes. According to O2, all accounts will be upgraded by mid March at the latest. Excellent news.
I made the difficult decision to change my RSS reader the other day from the lovely NewsFire to the newly free NetNewsWire. As it happens I actually have a licence for NNW from before it was made free but I didn’t like it enough and went back to NewsFire.
Today, I achieved the nirvana of a [...]
It’s fundamental: You are a programmer if you… - … write code that works.
Social Duties - “Hi Jim!! How is it going?” - “Don’t you read my feeds?”
Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move
macosxhints.com - How to work with an external editor in iPhoto - User preferences to choose another editor, then change it back. [...]
Acap shoots back : January 2008 : Ian Douglas : Technology : Telegraph Blogs - “It’s ill-conceived, poorly implemented, overly controlling and concerned only with the nervousness of some publishers, not the needs of the readers.”
Does the News Matter To Anyone Anymore? - “… a distraction designed not to convince readers that a newspaper aggressively [...]
I was reminded today of an amusing incident we had when we first started testing prospective employees back at Interesource. I wrote the test and then had a couple of my colleagues check it for usefulness and correctness. All seemed good, so we sent it to one of our recruitment consultants who promised to make [...]
I seem to have attracted a LinkedIn stalker. A few couple of weeks ago I received an ‘in mail’ from a recruitment consultant about a job at a joint venture between two very big names in the tech world. I wasn’t interested and declined the mail.
This morning, I received another mail (names obscured to protect [...]
When Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 they broke a huge number of sites. Why? They had tried to make IE7 standards-compatible, but had failed to understand how much work developers had had to go through to make their sites work in IE6 in the first place. There was a load of ‘best practice guidance’ guff [...]
For the last few months I’ve been working at the Telegraph on a variety of different things. One of them was a project to help them figure out what to do about registration and single sign-on. We recommended that they become an OpenID provider. This is the first of a whole series of innovative things [...]
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