Monthly Archives: January 2009
Tinkering at the windmill
I love my job. But after a day of starring at a laptop screen in your own home, it's nice to get out and interact with real people, instead of mediated avatars or disembodied voices on skype. So a couple of days ago, I spent an evening at the Tinker meetup at the the Windmill, [...]
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My latest reason for wanting to scoop IE7′s eyes out with a sharpened spoon.
When we're developing for the web, adapting for Interet Explorer is an unavoidable pain that we have to deal with. But it's rare to find a problem that rears its ugly head in Internet Explorer 7, but not its much maligned predecessor Internet Explorer 6. We're trained by experience to expect IE7 to know better, [...]
Renaming stuff with Ruby
I've been mucking around on the command line with Ruby again of late, and one thing that tripped me up initially, but is now firmly on my list of things I Like About Programming is how Ruby handles loops. With javascript, actionscript, php, it's pretty common to iterate through an array with a for loop [...]
Understanding the appeal of baking
Baking has always been something of a black art to me. I've privately marvelled over how simple, cheap base ingredients combine to the kinds of make culinary delights that trigger happy childhood memories, but it's always something I assumed was beyond my limited skills in the kitchen. So today has been something of a [...]
There is life after the cloud
This post is partly a reaction to getting slightly sick of the phrase 'cloud computing' over the last few months. I don't think that 'the cloud' is the be all and end all of computing, and I think there's some fascinating stuff happening at the edges of IT right now that shows the beginning of [...]
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SockMonkeys and um, …things that rhyme with sock monkeys