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The problems with cultural-sensitivity when you’re shipping something worldwide.
JUnit test tester. Works by changing your code and making sure your unit tests break! Wonder if there’s a Python version…
I can forgive TV companies for running crooked competitions, or faking phone-ins, but overrulling the viewers’ choice for the name for the Blue Peter Cat? That’s just EVIL!
“The person responsible for administering Copyright law in the US doesn’t own a computer.” This explains a *lot*.
Good article on where Joel sees web development going — some kind of higher-level language that compiles down to Javascript, HTML, and whatever else runs in browsers. I think there needs to be “Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.” t-shirts.
Lovely Flickarrrrr Eastarrrrr Egg for “Talk Like a Pirate Day”
Sounds fucking AMAZING! Do I dare buy a $300 console, just to play a $5 game?
Now launched. Tool to help you track people, emails, appointments and attachments. Sadly Outlook-only, currently. Initial prodding on my work email looks promising — I’m mildly tempted to install Outlook and point it at my home email accounts to see how well it does over a big (4+ years) dataset.
Tool for syncing source control over multiple systems — seems ideal for those times that “corporate” insist on a standard version control package that everyone hates, and you want to use SVN/git/whatever.
Playing with Google Docs’s new Presentations module. This is the result of uploading a fairly complex 7Mb PPT file — the last revision of “Powerful Pointed Presentation” before I switched to Keynote. Can’t seem to find any way of having “notes” or “commentary” appear with your presentation, but the Jabber chat is pretty cool.
UI and effects library from the JQuery team.
There’s at least a handful of lines of Python in this demo that were written by me — The first thing I’ve worked on at RhymesWithNose that’s made it out of R&D into the real world (Well, a RhymesWithNose store in Wrentham!)
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.