Tools of the Trade
Developing a computer program of any size, like any engineering trade, requires some tools and some planning.
Category: Techie
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Web development complexity
I wonder if such a large collection of technologies has always been required to write a business application?
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Maybe not so bad afterall
JavaScript's all making a lot more sense, but I still think it's a bit of a daft language.
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Javaaaarrghhscript
I'm still playing with Web Development languages and tools...but I'm really not liking JavaScript.
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A successful move!
Welcome to the all-new, Wordpress-based blog!
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Moving home
Dear very small readership The long and short of this (well, the short of it) is that I’m going to move by blog away from Google’s Blogger to WordPress in the near future. This will mean that: The URL will remain the same. EXCEPT…if you read a feed this will probably be at a new […]
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Social Web – the good and the bad
Control Alt Delete FIRST: A blatant plug for our favourite, not-very-well-known band (yes, we know someone in it) Iko. We don’t like them because we know them – we like them because we think they do really good music! They are on the verge of releasing their second album and have just released a freely […]
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Software Updates and Progress Bars
A couple of IT annoyances. Software Updates It seems that whenever I turn my computer on at the moment, about half of the software needs to auto-update. Pidgin (IM client), Firefox (and extensions), Anti-Virus, Adobe Reader and Flash, Windows, iTunes…it’s incessant! And it means that it’s about half an hour from pushing the on button […]
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Getting Wii Fit
A Confession Having finally, after many months, confessed to having a Wii and telling the world what I think about it. It’s time for the next step of my “coming out”. We, after a long period of searching, also bought a Wii Fit! If you have no idea what I’m talking about then take a […]
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The Wii
I’m sure a million people have reviewed the Nintendo Wii, so my comments on the latest addition to our household will be late and fairly insignificant. Still, having had the Wii for a while, I want to note what I think. Gaming History and Philosophy in the Wintle Household Sally and I aren’t big gamers. […]