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Programming Tips #2 “Test, Test, Test”

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Something that I see all the time is programmers who do not test their own work. I don’t know if this is laziness, stupidity or they really do believe what they have written is going to work. Point of [...]

8Nov2007 | Nick Halstead | 4 comments | Continued

Programming Tips Competition

I have a couple of licences for Zend Studio Professional that I have been holding back to give away for a competition. So after writing yesterdays programming ‘tips’ I thought perhaps I should get my readers to submit their own tips and then give away one copy for what I think is the best ‘tip’ [...]

7Nov2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued

Programming Tips #1 “Don’t Repeat Yourself”

Over the years I have built up what I call my ‘programming wisdom’ this is what
has replaced my early years of supposed ‘raw talent’. When I was age 11 I wrote my first program to play Chess, it wasn’t exactly Deep blue yet it could beat my parents but not me (is never good if [...]

6Nov2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued

OpenSocial will force Facebook to open up

After catching the MySpace/OpenSocial news my immediate question was how quickly is Facebook now going to open up? Do they have a choice? not a chance. The list as it stands - MySpace, Bebo, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle, already named as the anti-facebook coalition will mean that they have [...]

1Nov2007 | Nick Halstead | 4 comments | Continued

The Day The Routers Died

I very rarely post any videos but I really loved this, well worth a watch+listen.

28Oct2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

What de-motivates programmers?

I wrote ‘What motivates programmers‘ several months ago and at the time it caused quite a stir. The basic idea was that programmers are not motivated by the same things as everyone else, they are a complex bunch and in general are more likely to be motivated by a nice big 24 Inch Screen than [...]

21Oct2007 | Nick Halstead | 27 comments | Continued
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