You may have noticed that the layout of this blog has changed and a few new features have appeared. I have implemented a couple of things I have had on my to-do list for a while now.
Three Column layout
I have been finding that a two column layout does not have sufficient space for all the [...]
This weeks interesting pages:
How to broadcast your Google Reader ’starred items’ to an RSS feed or widget on your blog
This post explains how to share your Favorite (starred) items in Google Reader via either an RSS feed or as a widget on your blog. This is something I am interested in, as these weekly linkage [...]
The ‘Golden Hammer‘ is a very common anti-pattern, which can be best summed up by the phrase “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail“. This anti-pattern occurs when the perpetrator has typically learned a particularly powerful technique or design (the hammer), which they then go on to apply blindly to [...]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
I have come to the realisation that the most experienced person in a group is not usually the person getting the most benefit in terms of skills or experience gained when working on a collaborative project. In fact the more experienced the individual the less benefit they stand to gain, the inverse is true of [...]
This weeks interesting links:
Design Patterns
Design patterns are recyclable solutions to a software design problems and are an essential way to share design experience between designers without each designer having to discover the patterns themselves. Patterns are not however concrete implementations of solutions like a library they are higher level design concepts and whose implementation should [...]