Archive for April, 2007

University pre-entry requirements damaging our programming talents?

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I was reading today that the Royal Society of Chemistry has posted a £500 reward to answer a mathematic quiz that the chinese use as a pre-entry level test for university. The test can be downloaded if you are […]

25Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Ever thought about writing your own programming language?

One of the most serious decisions you can make as a programmer is to write a new programming language. Or to write your own compiler or interpreter for an already defined language. There are a whole host of questions to answer before you even start contemplating such a move. I have made the decision a […]

24Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued

Simple use of DIGG API for your blog

I have recently put up a list of DIGG popular stories on my sidebar. The reason for this was the advent of the new DIGG API which gives access to a whole range of data from the DIGG database.
There are already some good PHP classes to access the API but I wanted some thing quick […]

23Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 12 comments | Continued

Wordpress Tips & Plugins

I have been furiously customising my wordpress template and adding features to the sidebar. Here are a few of the plugins I have installed.

Random Page Redirect
Really cool link that jumps to one of your articles randomly. (see the red furry dice on the right.)
Written by: Matt Mullenweg

Code Highlighting
I will be posting quite a lot of […]

23Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Blog Etiquette

I have been busy working today (yes I know its sunday) but felt I had to take timeout to raise the issue of Blog Etiquette. I posted an article about ‘RDBM vs Filesystem‘ which got a lot of attention from DZONE (about 2000 unique visitors at last count, which is a lot for me.) and […]

22Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Ultimate desktop display?

I found this while stumbling around. Its a ‘CineMassive MasterPlex 30D‘ It contains a 30″ Ultra-Premium Center Panel and 5 x 20.1″ Wings. Now how on earth do you feed it? Two graphics cards with two outputs each still would not cut it. But more to the point, you would need a bigger desk.

22Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued
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