Iceland’s rift valley
Iceland’s rift valley, originally uploaded by Nic Wise. More iceland pics (set on Flickr) and Leonie’s write up of today. Managed a couple of HDRs, but to be honest, the light was SO good all day, the non-HDR’s came out just as good!
Read MoreThe Master, The Expert, The Programmer – absolute gold
Zed Shaw has nailed it, 110%. The main thing I noticed about the experts I’ve encountered is they are into impressing you with their abilities. They are usually incredibly good, but their need for recognition gets in the way of mastery. Everything they do is an attempt to prove themselves and in order to do this they must perform like …
Read MoreIceland Panoramic
Iceland Panoramic, originally uploaded by Nic Wise. shot from out the back of the hotel. Waiting for the northern lights to come up now
Read MoreLondon Wetlands
prefect place for tweeting also for walking on water if you are a Coot (and there are a few old coots with telescopes here – they take this bird watching thing way too seriously)
Read Morewandering around london
Leonie and I went for a bit of a wander around London, from Canary Wharf to Tower Bridge, via the Prospect of Whitby, which is a lovely old pub. Nice way to spend a day, esp as it ended with Christmas Pud and left-overs sammies
Read Morethe cult of scrum
Interesting, from O’Rielly Radar: The Cult of Scrum: If Agile is the teachings of Jesus, Scrum is every abuse ever perpetrated in his name. In many ways, Scrum as practiced in most companies today is the antithesis of Agile, a heavy, dogmatic methodology that blindly follows a checklist of “best practices” that some consultant convinced the management to follow. Endless …
Read Morefirst look at the guardian’s iphone app
I tend not to read many – or any – physical newspapers these days, but I do read a lot of news, all of it for free, and all of it online. Since coming to the UK, my main sources have been the BBC (where I used to work) and The Guardian, as well as tech news from Ars Technica, …
Read Morepair programming – the ups and downs
Mark Wilden has a lovely post on pairing. From my experience, which isn’t a hell of a lot in this case, I totally agree. Especially this bit (I’m cherry picking parts of this, so please, read the whole thing, it’s absolutely worth the 5 mins): Pair programming doesn’t encourage quiet reflection and exploration. You can’t just sit back and read some code. …
Read Morehow to use the google DNS servers with an O2 Wireless box
Steps: telnet into the router: telnet 192.168.1.254 (you will need a telnet client. Windows, MacOS and Linux all come with them) login as SuperUser, with a password of O2Br0ad64nd (this is public knowledge BTW, but only useful INSIDE your network. This works in the web UI too) run the following commands: dns server route flush dns server route add dns=8.8.8.8 …
Read MoreQuickTime, iPhoto, Mac and AVI files (AviImporter crashes)
This is more a google post, if it helps someone. Since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I’ve had problems with iPhoto and AVI files (ie, videos off my camera) – and also preview and anything else which uses QuickTime to play an AVI. The crash was in the AviImporter library – I assume it’s a 64 vrs 32 bit issue. …
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