On hols in sunny CA so no code any time soon. But as Joel Spolsky so wisely noted planning time is oh so important.
I’m sure that while I enjoy the sun, sea and surf my subconscious will be chewing over the class hierarchy for the project.
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In the beginning Babbage created the software and the hardware.
And the software was without form, and monolithic; and spaghetti code was upon the face of the screen. And the spirit of Turing moved upon the face of the computer science.
And The Norwegian Computing Centre said, Let there be classes; and there was objects.
And programmers saw [...]
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The age old problem.
Since cavepeople, clutching their burnt sticks, first stared at a blank cave wall the problem of how to start has faced mankind.
Whilst some turned to their inner creative strengths to produce masterpieces, others turned to drink and produced hangovers.
I must confess to being at a tipping point at the moment and [...]
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The mac mini is starting to grow on me but in its ‘out of the box’ state clearly lacks some essential ingredients to make it useful for web development. The process to get it to a point where I was happy with it was much easier than I first feared. Here is how it [...]
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Neither! Don’t get me wrong they are both good, Martin Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise… borders on very good. I like his tabbed margin layout that helps you navigate the sections just by looking at the edge of the closed book. I like the sections themselves, domain logic, data [...]
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This is my first mac! Talk about impulse buying, but the Apple shop on Regent Street in London is so cool. It’s very white and bright, like being at your dentist but you get to play with the drills.
For £399 and Intel CPU who could resist? Well judging by the market share a lot of [...]
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I don’t want to sound too much like Swiss Tony here but… Reading a text book is like breaking in a horse that has never been ridden.
I havn’t ridden many horses but I have read a lot of text books and in order to survive I have developed techniques that work for me. So if [...]
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I am now the proud owner of 2 large hardback text books with lots of pages, each page with lots of small writing consisting of looong words. See Solution(002).
Now ‘Most People’ would find the prospect of tackling these weighty tombs more than a little intimidating and, in this scenario at least, I am most definately [...]
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I have ordered these 2 books from Amazon:
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I hope to review them, imho, as soon as possible.
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