Programming

Programming Tips #1 “Don’t Repeat Yourself”

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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 [...]

6Nov2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 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

Zend Framework and fav.or.it

As we come near to launching fav.or.it I thought I would share my thoughts on building the project completely on Zend Framework. When we started 7 months ago the framework was on version 0.7 and some may have thought that basing our fledgling startup on a single unknown framework was slightly foolhardy. I will first [...]

1Oct2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued

Cybercar Human Problem

I was reading about a scheme to bring Cybercars into towns in England today. The idea is that they create dedicated paths for these little electric cars and put up Cybercar stops at which people can press a button and summon a car. They then tell it the destination (no idea how) and then the [...]

27Sep2007 | Nick Halstead | 4 comments | Continued

Interview First Impressions

My first interview as a programmer was a telephone interview. Here is a short
transcript as I remember it (it was 17 years ago so it may not be accurate, as in storing PI in 3 bits accurate.)
(pleasantries have passed… and now I want to know what this job involves)
Me: So what kind of responsibilities will [...]

22Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued
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