The web sites that I’ve found most interesting this week are:
Remember the Milk
In my continuing quest for a decent To-Do list application I have signed up for ‘Remember the Milk’ an online To-Do list service and so far it seems pretty decent a distinct improvement over Microsoft Outlook’s task management anyway but that is not [...]
Consider the following diagram, which is attempting to show features being added to program in a source control system.
First feature B is added to the mainline A, as feature B is a fairly large change and leaves the programmer with two choices (explanation of terms)
They can add B to the mainline to create AB, this [...]
There seems to be something about programming that makes software engineers seek the perfect solution to a given problem or design brief.
Something that drives them to keep adding things to their program or library until they kill it with love for example Microsoft Word has a gazillion features but until recently (its has improved a [...]
Here are the web pages that I have found most interesting this week:
Ten Killer WordPress Hacks
I was surprised to find that this article was interesting enough that I intend to experiment with implementing some of the suggestions. This is unusual as I usually find lists of essential addons or plugins or hacks for WordPress uninspiring [...]
Many modern programming languages feature some form of exception handling facility, and although I am going to be talking particularly about C# in this post, it can probably be applied to any language that has exception handling. Exception handling is very useful for the graceful handling of unexpected errors (exceptions) during program execution, however [...]