p(update). The venue will be the “Olde Bank of England”:http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/66/660/ – we have the balcony reserved. After a long hiatus, it’s back. I’d love to blame trips to China and Minneapolis, but in truth I’m just plain lazy. Format as before – a laidback drink/gossip with perhaps a few demos…
Now that I’ve “moved my sites(magpiebrain – New host, new blog, new screwups)”:http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/04/17/new-host-new-blog-new-screwups/ over to TextDrive, I need to find a new domain registrar to complete the relocation. My old ISP was an OpenSRS reseller, and I don’t want to keep paying my old monthly fee to them simply to…
On a Wednesday instead this week, just for kicks, but once again at the “Olde Bank of England”:http://www.pubs.com/pub_details.cfm?ID=214 from 7pm. No agenda as yet, but I want demos! Leave a comment if you’ll be coming so I can get an idea of numbers. Though the magic of Google Calendar (I’m…
Why is it, that the BBC provides RSS feeds for virtually all of it’s news content except when it comes to travel alerts for Lond Underground? What exactly do they think we use RSS for, and why do they think an email service you have to register for is superior…
“Tom Coates'(Podcast of Tom’s Presentation)”:http://www.webuser.co.uk/carsonworkshops/TomCoates.mp3 recent presentation at the “Future of Web Apps summit(Casron Network’s The Future of Web Apps Summit)”:http://www.carsonworkshops.com/summit/ did a very good job of expressing what I believe to be the most potentially interesting aspect of the current crop of Internet applications. Early on, applications such as…
Carlos make a very interesting point concerning my suprise that Flickr haven’t invested in functional testing: …[not testing can incur] less upfront [costs] and more maintenance costs over time. As a startup (well, before they were acquired by Yahoo, anyway), this makes sense: the whole point of a startup is…
Nowadays, creating a webservice can be fairly simple. Axis has finally got to a point where creating a SOAP interface requires the minimum amount of chicken slaughtering and dark incantations, and .NET makes it ridiculously easy (no wonder Java 6 is aping .NET-style ease of use(magpiebrain – Sun on Mustang…
A recent post by Cedric in response to an article by Michael Feathers (danger, community navel gazing alert! Obviously this blog is above such things) casts doubt on the necessity of unit tests. Michael’s rules on what a unit test is seem overly draconian to some (not being able to…
Click for larger image I’ve long been a fan of the python-based ticket tracking/wiki/subversion browser, trac. It manages to integrate subversion changesets with tickets quite simply – go to a changset page and you’ll see the edits; go to a ticket and you can see all changesets that apply to…
The inclusion of the enclosure element in the RSS 2.0 specification opened the door for what Ben Hammersley called Podcasting. The enclosure element was originally introduced by Dave Winer to allow Christopher Lydon to associate mp3’s of his radio shows. Adam Curry and other’s software took enclosures and developed software…
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