April 2004
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Back from Megève
Just got back from a week’s spring skiing in Megève. This is probably our last trip of the 03/04 season :( We had a great time; skied on amazingly empty slopes; ate at a selection of wonderful restaurants and had some great guiding … -
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MT-Blacklist
Sorry about the comment spam whilst I was away. I’ve now installed MT-Blacklist, so hopefully the only offensive rubbish and stupid sales-pitches on this site will be my own… MT-Blacklist seems pretty good; it cleaned up the … -
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SOA, coupling, flexibility and discipline
Some thoughts on Service Oriented Architectures and how for some people the silver bullet du jour is the only tool in their toolbox… Just a bit of a rant really… Recently, both Rocky Lhotka and Ted Neward have said plenty of … -
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MT-Blacklist
Well, so far I’m very pleased with MT-Blacklist. It works well at preventing comment spam and when some spam gets through it’s very easy to update the blacklist and then run the ‘despam’ option to remove all traces … -
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Designing to be inherited is extra effort
I saw this rather nice explaination for why sealed is used in so many .Net classes over on cincomsmalltalk.com as a comment to a rant about how .Net is bad for your design skills… *Designing to be inherited is extra effort [Shane … -
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Block
My brain has been too busy to think recently. I’ve had too many background issues going on, too many unresolved items, too much shit to deal with. I haven’t been able to think new things because I’ve been too tied up in … -
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Dogfood
I’ve been running my main mail feeds through my POP3 code for several weeks now. All my email gets pulled from the POP3 servers into my home-brew email system, it runs through my hardcoded filters which split “bad” mail … -
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Wafer thin testing?
I’ve spent the past month or so helping a corporate client improve code quality in a sprawling application. It’s non-trivial, the code-base is huge, the quality is, at best, questionable and the coupling is excessive and made … -
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In the Zone
Where did the last three days go? I’ve been working on this project for a client since February, on and off. They had some delays which meant that hardware that I needed wasn’t ready when expected, so we slipped. Then other …