I’ve had a chance to visit Brisbane a few times in the last 6 months or so. Twice on business. Once as part of our summer holiday over the Christmas break.
I managed to find time on the first trip with work to rent a bike and do some riding along the river, but [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Sydney to Brisbane, Australia
24Mar09I’ve read 2 articles recently about technical debt: one by Martin Fowler, and one by Max Pool on Codesqueeze.
I particularly agree with Max’s idea that if you ‘Make your case, and show the business value, the majority of the time you will get that signature for the refactor’.
I always hear developers blaming management for a [...]
PHP Picasa
13Mar09I decided a while back to upgrade my photo gallery software. At that time I was using my own online file store and a simple recursive browse algorithm to manage the organization of all of my photos. For the base case I would fire up a flash slide show that I found for [...]
Johanesburg, South Africa
05Mar09I spent 2 weeks in South Africa last fall on business.
I was quite lucky, because I was sent over with a guy from work who a) used to live there, and b) didn’t mind taking me around and showing me things.
We were working in Witbank which is a coal mining town about 2 hours south [...]
IPhone 3G
04Mar09Yep, bought an IPhone 3G just a few weeks after they were released in Australia last year.
I was definitely awestruck initially, but having never owned a smart-phone of any type before it really was a giant leap. There is something about having a personal computer that you can hold in the palm of your [...]
I’ve heard a few arguments recently siding on either top-down or bottom-up design. I’ve heard some agreement on a need for both. My opinion resides in the second category.
Both are required for different reasons, but both are required in almost every context.
Top-down design is very valuable because it allows us to look at [...]
