Ever wondered which software companies are near you?
I helped Matt put together this map, which gives the locations and URLs for the various software companies that we know of.
We’d love it if you could contribute updates. Just log in with your Google account and click the “edit” button on the left. If you have any problems or questions, please post a comment.
I recently met Helen for lunch, and couldn’t help but take a photo of this sign.
The centre of Bristol has a number of “Better By Bike” posters up on the lampposts. Here’s a very low-quality photograph of one of them.
I saw an advert in my local shopping centre for Windows 7, and I was so impressed with their correct use of fewer that I almost considered upgrading.
I recently part-exchanged my old, small car (let’s say, Ford Fiesta*) for a newer, bigger car from the same manufacturer (let’s say, Ford Focus**). Whilst the newer car is better in many different ways, it’s somewhat disappointing to find that a number of useful features in the original have been lost in the intervening years.
So I recently spent $9.97 on enabling me to use my dantwining.com domain in place of dantwining.wordpress.com. I was given the choice of either having paypal bill me in $, and take whatever conversion rate my credit card company would offer me, or accept the paypal rate and have them bill me in £. But which one is better? There’s only one way to find out… Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaths!
So it looks like all the DNS changes have filtered through, and dantwining.com now points to dantwining.wordpress.com. Maybe now that I don’t have to bother with wordpress and plug-in upgrades, I might actually get round to generating some content…
I’ve been applying my first rule of technostuff (“Favour Apple Over !Apple”) to my music collection, and as such, I’ve been messing around with iTunes.
I’ve had this post brewing for quite a while. Here’s the thing; you’ve got to separate content from control. You’ve got to separate the what from the how.
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After reading Joel Spolsky’s latest blog post, I wrote this in my drafts…
The best comment is the comment that you didn’t have to write. The best code is the code that you didn’t have to write. The best design pattern is the design pattern that you didn’t have to use. The best inheritance hierarchy is the inheritance hierarchy that you didn’t have to use.
Yes, sometimes a programmer that uses inheritance and design patterns too much is worse than one who doesn’t use them at all (especially when there’s software to ship). But the best programmers are the ones who understand that the secret to design patterns, inheritance hierarchies, comments, and just plain old code — the secret is to know when not to use them.
Yes, I stole the first one from Clean Code. I would’ve given Uncle Bob due reference in the full version, of course, but now he’s put it even better than I ever could. So go read what he has to say instead!
