Technology

The Rule of three

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I mentioned in a previous post about the rule of three. I firmly believe that whatever development methodology you use you can never get a complex development right the first time. The rule only applies to a certain kind […]

17Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

The death of Google search

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About three years ago I remember having a conversation with a close friend about Google and its dominance of the search engine market. I said at the time that I believed that Google would be replaced within 5 years by another innovation. We still have two years for my prediction to come […]

11Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Moving my blog

I made the decision several days ago that I would move my blog onto WordPress after finding lots of flaws in the blog software I was using before. The troubles started with the fact that my VPS supplier had mySQL version 3 installed which was not going to work with the latest WordPress version. I […]

8Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

What school computer departments used to look like

I was looking on my old secondary schools website and I came across some old pictures of the computer department. It started out with a Altair 8080b which is now in a museum! We had several Pertec drives which used to crash constantly due to the dusty air in the school.
Each drive platter in the […]

3Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Teach your computer to suck eggs, bananas and other kinds of fruit

I was struggling with a tricky problem last week on how to get a stupid computer to understand us ’smart’ humans. The problem being that the great English language is extremely fluid and extremely difficult to create logic rules for. I won�t give away the problem I was trying to solve as its part of […]

2Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

April fool madness and old source code

Seems like every major website today had some form of april fool joke today. But I think Gmail Paper was my favourite - GMAIL PAPER
I have also been going back through some of my code archives to see if there was anything relevant I could use for a future article about ‘how not to […]

1Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued
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