I was pair-programming today and we made a change to a fundamental data type which required all the web-services to be rebuilt and republished. We’d done this a couple of times before. The build is OK, but what then follows…
New Year is a good time for some introspection. I’ve been looking at how I can do things, and re-reading the most excellent book The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master. One of the mantras of a pragmatic programmer is…
The web is a big place. Sometimes though, it’s hard to visualise quite how big, and how much goes on in it. Barry Ritholz has produced two amazing Infographics which really bring home quite how amazing the whole thing is.…
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas, whatever you’re doing, and a Happy New Year. 2011 has been a pretty good year for me, hopefully 2012 will be even better. As you read this, just spend a moment imagining all the…
This is a celebratory post, as I’ve managed to do some PHP editing, and didn’t break anything, or kill anyone. I have a very bad relationship with PHP. I’m pretty sure it’s nothing to do with language itself (I don’t…