This post has been brewing for the past few months. I decided to finally write it to psyche myself up for the onslaught of the exam season starting next week. A little background; a few months ago I crashed and burned doing a big swing for the fences, a startup I had been working on [...]

Image by Kassel via Flickr Open API‘s have become the staple of the internets. If you have a website and it doesn’t offer some kind of API then you’re an idiot these days. One of those people stuck in the past. For the purpose of this swapping generalisation let’s assume an RSS is a sort [...]

Image by ecstaticist via Flickr Some of you may remember my writing about how unit testing is anti-productive and those of you I have to disapoint, I still dont’ think it’s the best productivity tool out there. BUT! The past few days I had another go at unit testing while developing a “server” for gathering [...]

Image by ecstaticist via Flickr Today I finally got my feet wet with something I’ve been meaning to try on for size ever since reading Clean Code, during my trip to Vienna last autumn; wow has it really been that long already, where’d winter and spring hide? Anyway, so at about midnight last night I [...]