iPad first impressions
There has been a lot of hype around the iPad and I have to confess that after watching the original advertisement I was hooked. But was all the hype justified? On first use if you are an iPhone user …
There has been a lot of hype around the iPad and I have to confess that after watching the original advertisement I was hooked. But was all the hype justified? On first use if you are an iPhone user …
Post/Redirect/Get or Redirect after Post is an HTTP interaction pattern that can be used when developing web applications. I have been mentioning it quite a few times in my consulting work and thought …
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been around for a very long time (1988) and Instant Messaging (IM) for even longer – although IM did not become really popular until the mid 90’s with the emergence …
Why do application developers think that adding more functionality is always a good thing for the user? When I first started working on GUI applications (Windows 1.0) we worked very hard to get …
 As anyone who knows me will say I have a thing about keyboards and have a few in my current collection. On a whim today I …
Since joining ThoughtWorks in 2004 I have enjoyed Pair Programming and my programming skills have improved significantly. Working on a problem with someone else full time is one of those practices …
So after having the server nicely set up and ready for configuration I could not resist just ‘getting on with it’. I had grand plans to plan it out and record everything (good practice) …
This article post ‘The painful truth about age discrimination in tech’ left me a little confused. Am I still considered a developer or have I given up the mantle and considered a …
A plaintive call to not over use the lovely zoom features in Excel and Word. The zoom parameters are stored in the document so when you receive them it is very unlikely that your zoom setting will …
Look after your tools and they will look after you! I was very lucky to grow up in the country with a father who enjoyed teaching me practical skills like carpentry, motor mechanics and just about …