comp-sci

The New Project: Shrew

I’ve been reading and thinking about RESTful web applications and services quite a bit recently. The last large web application I wrote evolved into a RESTful web application: readable, bookmarkable...

Perl

I don’t usually post entries that just refer to someone else’s post and then comment, but I thought this one was worth it.

The Box Doesn't Exist

One word that always causes me to shudder: ‘Content.’ This is now apparently the standard word that people in the software industry use to refer to that which is created...

Embrace Your Inner Geek

Why bother reading long posts about esoteric language features that your language doesn’t provide, or even if it does, it’s not a good idea to use too often?

Continuing on Closures

Worst Example...Evar!

Way back in my first year of university, as part of a first year discrete maths unit we were taught introductory formal logic. After introducing propositional logic and covering ANDs,...

Peopleware

Peopleware; Productive Projects and Teams Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister