The BBC homepage, which I worked on from January until October last year, has finally gone public (well, beta). You can get to it one of two ways: either hit the current homepage and opt in to the new one (link on the top of the page). Or just load the website.
So, whats new (well, [...]
So, it’s been 4 months since I left the BBC (and wow, looks like the Homepage is about to go live-beta). It’s been a bit of a learning curve/wall, especially some things which I wasn’t expecting. Here’s what I found.
I don’t work well on a morning. Once I worked this out, it’s a lot easier [...]
Quick note for anyone looking for a Macbook, or RAM.
06/03/2010: Mac is gone, RAM still available.
Macbook, 13 inch, White late-2006 model. 2ghz Core2Duo; 4GB RAM (3.5GB usable); 250GB hard drive. All the rest of the bells and whistles of a Macbook (802.11N, Bluetooth, DVD writer etc etc). Full specs here (it’s the second/middle row). Comes [...]
It’s finally up in the store:
Feel free to grab it off the iTunes store. And even more information here.
Thanks to Shaun, I have an update to do already, but it’s a very minor one, only happens in one situation (which, if you download it, you will notice – look for @(null) when you first use [...]
Really enjoying reading this article from Matt Gemmell. I especially love this bit:
Closed system. This is the very opposite of what your customers care about. The percentage of your customer base who make a buying decision based on the openness of a system (in terms of system-level customisation options, use of open source software or [...]
As some may know, I’m doing some work for a rocking email archiving company in Denmark, so obviously, my source repository isn’t local – or even in this country. Luckily for me, it’s Subversion (rather than VSS or TFS).
Up until now, I’ve been using Git (with -svn) to manage my code. This has worked well, mostly. I [...]
Yup, I’ve finally pulled finger and sat down to do some iPhone development, right in time for the iPad’s release. No, that wasn’t the reason – I just finally have a “spare day” to do stuff in, and the other (non-day-job) project was allowing me some spare time.
I had two projects earmarked as learning projects, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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