I was wondering this morning why Penguin always print Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) when Isak Dinesen was a pen name. This is not their normal practice with other authors with pen names. For example, they don’t print Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) or Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot).
I still don’t know why they do it.
If broken it is, fix it you should : .NET Debugging Demos Lab 4: High CPU Hang - Review - Excellent case study for debugging a web site with very high CPU usage
Are .NET Developers the American Tourists of the Software Industry? | Caffeinated Coder - “Developers who don’t earn their living from Redmond-based technologies [...]
Architecture: Stairs Bookcase Actually Makes Me Want to Move to London - I would never make it to bed if I had this staircase
Cocoa Is My Girlfriend > Blog Archive > NSOperation Example - Neat little sample that demonstrates multi-threaded programming in Cocoa using the NSOperation class
Memo to developer bloggers: Get off your pedastal and coach talent - “So if you’re a code monkey with a blog, ask yourself if what you’re posting today helps the art and science of programming by helping others, or if you’re just being a blow-hard with an opinion. If it’s the latter, remember what they [...]
I just got back from a very pleasant excursion to South London; an oxymoron, I know. On my way I catalogued some quaint and some not so quaint shop signs.
The first one is lovely - it’s just down the Walworth Road from me: Mixed Blessings Bakery. Later on there was another nicely named bakery in [...]
furbo.org - So you’re going to write an iPhone app? - “The good news is that the user interface is much less complex. The bad news is that the user interface is much less complex.” - some hints about what it will be like to develop iPhone apps
An Introduction to RubyCocoa RubyCocoa Resources -
QPR fans give thanks a billion times over | Football League - Times Online - Bernie Ecclestone does not mince his words. ‘One thing’s for sure,’ he says. ‘If we owe anything, we pay it back.’
While trawling the (uniformly awful) recruitment websites, I came across this rather too honest job description:
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Sneaking behind IT’s back - “… individual employees or business units begin using a new technology, without any formal imprimatur from higher-ups, and it proves so valuable that IT departments and corporate execs have no choice but to embrace it.”
One Year In A IT Project - Day 11 - heh
Photo credit: chrstphre
A sarcastic look at what might happen to Flickr if the Microsoft/Yahoo! deal goes through. More here.
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