I don’t know if you guys are free software gadget monkeys or not, but this stuff might be of value to those of you who use Visual Studio 2005. The guys over at SlickEdit.com, makers of the top notch SlickEdit editor, have released a stack of free gadgets for Visual Studio 2005 which are [...]
I’m a regular reader of The Daily WTF and most of the time I get a good laugh and think to myself “Boy, I’m glad I’m not working on that system.”
Then I get to work and find myself looking at very similar instances of WTFness in the applications I am working on. I think that [...]
I found a pretty inspiring video the other day that I think is a perfect visual representation of what should happen in software. OK, that’s not quite true, I didn’t find it, I was given it by none other than Dan the man (@shifty). The video is a time-lapsed video of someone drawing a picture [...]
For some reason I thought that the I.T. industry as a whole had matured enough to the point that all developers would have realised that programming with an ego has a bad affect on the software. I also thought that people would stay up to speed, work hard, and focus on producing good quality code. [...]
As a final post for today, I just got sent this classic Google Video from Dan over at Shifty. It’s pretty funny!
Having said that, I’m sure that most devs know how tough something like voice recognition can be to build. Try demoing something like this to the world, it’d be an absolute nightmare! I [...]
I’ve had this link archived for a little while, and today’s the day I decided to be arsed to comment on it. A long-term blogger known as Greg posted about what he’s learned about blogging in his 2000th blog post. I enjoyed reading it, and it made me ask myself the questions:
What do you get [...]
Technology is pretty amazing. What makes it more amazing is that just when you think a particular idea has been taken to the nth degree and couldn’t go much further, another boffin comes along and shows that there is more that can be done!
This glass CD is a prime example. CD/DVD technology is now run [...]
