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iDork

Sun 2008-08-17 23:01

Well, it's happened… I'm an iDork. Got myself an iPhone today.

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Open Tech 2008

Mon 2008-07-14 21:33

A couple of weekends back Kat and I went to the Open Tech 2008 one day conference in London. I had planned to write about some things I came across there in some depth, alas time is against me. It would be criminal for me to let it go completely unmentioned though.

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xfig still state of the art?

Mon 2008-07-07 16:18

From time to time I have to draw a diagram. This excites me, I enjoy diagrams. Back in university the way to draw a diagram for a report was either xfig or to marking it up directly in latex. But they're oldskool there are groovy new ways to draw diagrams these days. The state of the GUI diagramming art seems to be either inkscape or dia.

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Quick

Thu 2008-06-26 00:57

"because it's not compiled, it's also very quick" [1]

It's a different definition of quick of course, but somehow I begin to feel disconnected and trolling mode wells up from the darkness within.

But… even in that sense, is it really as quick as we think it is? In my experience it certainly makes it quicker to discover new and interesting types of bugs.

The quote relates to Ruby, but really, be it Ruby, Perl, or Python it seems much the same.

[1] I've quoted from the 3rd page of an article there. I'm still not quite sure why these sites bother to separate their articles into "pages." Even SMH used to be one-page-per-article before this pagination fad caught on.

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