Much has been written about the subject of refactoring code over the years including some very well known work by Martin Fowler. There are many resources on the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of refactoring out on the web so I don’t intend to go back over those aspects of the topic here other than to mention [...]
Facebook has changed the way it’s like button for third party websites works over the weekend to post a full feed story rather than just a simple ‘Recent Activity’ one-liner. I’ve been testing that out via implementations on a couple of sites I’ve been working on and from a site owner’s perspective, this change seems [...]
I reckon some of the best times working as a software designer and programmer are when you manage to make something really quite hideously complex look absolutely trivial to the end user. In this case, some fairly hairy fuzzy-searching, de-duplicating and difference-spotting code for the Help Training Courses Magical Auto Search, running behind a user [...]
A recent TV ad for Amazon’s Kindle was a bit of a ground breaker as far as I’m concerned in that it actively pushed the cross platform nature of the company’s software as a mainstream selling point. While those of us in the techy community have long seen the benefits of software that doesn’t just [...]
I upgraded my main development desktop to Ubuntu 10.10 a few days ago and my first impressions are of a solid, fast and generally pleasant to use release which I’d highly recommend a look at if you haven’t already. I value a productive and quick work machine and have been using Linux as my preferred [...]
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