Archive for December, 2006

My recent links…

Dec. 20, 2006 3 Comments Posted under: Development, Hijax, JavaScript

Last night I spent about half an hour I should have spend a long time ago, installing a plug in to display my recent links from del.icio.us (social bookmarking). It was fairly easy, I downloaded a script for displaying RSS feeds, changed the link and called if from inside an un-ordered list on my side [...]

Wii have an update for you

Dec. 19, 2006 No Comments Posted under: Games, Random

I woke up thismorning to find my Wii was blue (not as worrying as it sounds). On turning it on I had a message in my inbox from Nintendo to inform me that the weather channel was now open and ready for download. The weather channel is more or less a desktop widget showing you [...]

Gideon’s Backlash

Dec. 18, 2006 3 Comments Posted under: Random

I found a link to this post from Andy Budd’s site earlier today. Whilst in a hotel in New York James Edwards found a copy of the Bible and beside it a copy of Quran. So he then thought to himself, why limit this distribution of books to religious works and got himself a few [...]

Extreme Programming

Dec. 13, 2006 1 Comment Posted under: Development, Hijax

I was in a meeting today with Aral Balkan looking into future development of one of our products, and was introduced to my first industrial experience of Extreme Programming. Personally I come from an SSADM background at university and XP is more or less the complete other end of the spectrum. I feel SSADM is [...]

Ceros revew

Dec. 11, 2006 1 Comment Posted under: Random

I got a link today which includes a review of Ceros. They have some really nice things to say about Ceros and explain that the title is independent of the technology… which is nice ;) Read the review here!