Software As She’s Developed

Yeah, there’s lots to love about ITunes. The overall architecture is excellent and if this is what Spotlight will become in the next OSX (as rumoured), that’s all good. However, there are also some things that are really bad in ITunes. It’s interesting that Apple still seems to be the best player out there despite […]

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I was surprised to see this video of everyone’s favourite professional wrestlerCEO giving it up for “Advertisers, Advertisers, Advertisers!”. You might recall my post about my inclusion of the more famous “Developers” call-to-arms in a podcast (with good fortune, it was the Ajax podcast, the most downloaded podcast I’ve done). Including this new chant just […]

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Sound Thinking Where’s that sound coming from? An app inside my box? Is it ITunes on the desktop Or YouTube in the ‘Fox? A Skyper shouting at me? Or Pandora playing faves? Media Player come to life? Hmmm … Real with recent saves? A podcast I’m preparing? A vidcast made for nerds? Nope, it seems to be this picture, It says a thousand words! Huh? I started writing the […]

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If you've heard DHH or other Rails enthusiasts introducing Rails, they'll often point to the neat inflection module, which maps back and forth between plurals and singular forms, among other things. Even if not the most killer thing about Rails, it's an excellent introductory topic as it quickly conveys the humane nature of the Rails [...]

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Apparently, PragDave recently questioned the conventional wisdom about GOTO considered harmful (does this mean all "X considered harmful" articles will be retrospectively struck off the record?). Ivan Moore's given an example as to why the rule of "a single exit point" sucks, and I agree. Another reason for multiple exit points is guard clauses. Code units, [...]

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