Saturday March 19, 2011
"Sight is the Syntax Highlighter Chrome extension that makes reading code on the browser a joy."
Monday January 24, 2011
Simple code review recommendations. Synchronous, quick and personal, vs Async, meetings and workflows.
Friday December 17, 2010
Standalone IRCCloud client for OS X
Sunday November 28, 2010
Mozilla Skywriter (formerly codenamed Bespin) is a fast, customizable programmer's editor, written for modern web browsers. With it, you can enable "coding in the cloud" on your website (using Skywriter Embedded) or on any website (using Skywriter Bookmarklet)
Tuesday July 13, 2010
Good practical thoughts on JS testing.
Tuesday May 25, 2010
More thoughts onTDD and general testing. Why it can be very beneficial, but not for the reasons a lot of people thing.
An interesting argument against unit testing, lots that I agree with in here.
Monday August 24, 2009
"To demonstrate some uses of PHP 5.3's fun, new anonymous functions let's implement the famous functions: map and reduce."
Thursday August 13, 2009
Safe advice on product development, "All you have to do to succeed in software is to consistently suck less with every release." From one of the Bugzilla
Wednesday August 12, 2009
Utterly stunning visualisation of sorting algorithms. Instantly understandable and entirely intuitive, they're a brilliant bit of design, almost art.
Thursday July 23, 2009
"better than grep" is not a lie. Really useful tool for searching source and code files. By default it ignores git/svn files (which often spam grep results)
Tuesday July 14, 2009
I see and do this a lot, overly complex single line boolean expressions annoy me a lot. Nice to see the "proper" term for the practice.
Monday July 13, 2009
Using xargs like I mean it. svn st * | grep “^ C” | cut -c 8- | xargs svn...
Friday May 8, 2009
"1940s - Various "computers" are "programmed" using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate."
Thursday April 9, 2009
Congrutulations, you’re on an outdated verison of OS X, but you still want to play with cool...
Monday May 7, 2007
19/07/2009: The script in this post is currently broken, it’ll be fixed soon
If you use...
Saturday January 6, 2007
Over the holidays I came discovered Code Golf and got quite addicted to one of the challenges, for...
Friday October 6, 2006
Yesterday Google launched a new search for source code, this is such a great idea that I can’t...