Archive for July, 2007

BarCamp - MiniBar

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A presentation underway
We are getting closer to announcing the project I have been working on so I went into socializing mode on friday and popped down to the monthly Barcamp - Minibar event. The overall plan was to start […]

29Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 10 comments | Continued

Do faster typists make better coders?

I have been able to touch type since about age 12 and can manage about 100 words per minute when faced with blocks of text to copy and even faster if I am just writing code.
About 15 years ago. I would have been typing.

LDY #0
.loop
LDA blocka,y
STA blockb,y
INY
CPY #100
BNE .loop

For those who don’t know this […]

24Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 48 comments | Continued

Learning lessons from the PHP transition

My last article about Matt Mullenweg and his attack on the PHP development team raised a few further issues which I wanted to briefly discuss. Stuart (blog.stut.net) had some very interesting points to make that not quite supported Matt but certainly made me rethink more about the other side of the argument.
His key point […]

24Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 5 comments | Continued

PHP Competition Results - The Winner

And the winner is…..
Todd Pinel
Where do I start with my praise for Todd’s entry? So much effort has been put into this entry its amazing. As a starting point you should first go have a look yourselves, Todd has helpfully already hosted it here. Let the praise begin..
Implementation
So first and foremost this thing […]

21Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 13 comments | Continued

PHP Competition Results - Second Place

I write this with slight trepidation after the minor dispute from yesterday’s result for third place. And yet onwards and upwards. So second place, more drum rolls.. goes to Evan Chiu.
Evan’s solution revolved around a well implemented breadth first search which was wrapped up in a neat class. It was also quite well presented […]

20Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 18 comments | Continued

PHP Competition Results - Third Place

The third place winner is… drumroll please.. Karol Grecki. Now you will notice by looking down at the scores that I gave Karol a 6. I will give a full explanation on why but first congratulations for a job well done.
I was really impressed with Karol’s entry and if it was not for the […]

19Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 23 comments | Continued
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