I recently came across the series of videos produced by wonderingmind42 on the risk management analysis of the current gloabal warming crisis. Also available on manpollo.
He proposes a very compelling argument. And what is more, it is simple.
Also very interesting, is that his very detailed videos (there is nearly 6 hours in total) also teach [...]
As a long term Windows user, but also a developer, I am a strong believer in Fitts Law. But I know it is difficult to reconcile the two design requirements of simple interface for beginners, with advanced interface for experts.
So I love to find anything that quickly merges into my standard keyboard usage and makes [...]
I like agile development, it works, but it does need some pretty clear guide lines and rules. It also needs very good testing systems to ensure no developer breaks anyones elses code.
Up until now, I have been using the same tools as everyone else.
SVN, perforce, CVS, etc… we all know this type of source control [...]
One of my bug-bears for years has been the lack of auto-completing in the windows CMD promt.
I have always used *nix tools like cygwin to provide this.
Now I find out that this has been built in for years….
It was simply disabled.
The fix is very easy. A Registry edit:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Command Processor/CompletionChar= 9
Thats it.
This is a microsoft fix. [...]
I already have cygwin installed, with GIT.
I have just been trying the mingw32 based version of GIT.
Mostly because I wanted to see the QT based QGIT, which will work directly with the mingw32 version of GIT.
What I want to point out, is that these two versions seem slightly incompatible…
A full commit from cygwin, comes up [...]
I have been thinking about removing the category navigation system on this site and replacing it with a tag cloud.
So I obviously hit google first to find out a bit more… i.e.: is it possible.
Nice quick answer to that, yes, if you have version 2.3 or above. Cool.
But then I got into reading everyones comments [...]
I thought I might add another simple tip.
When I am messing around with a wesite… I spend a lot of my time creating, editing and manipulating the databases.
Any commercial Hosting Service, worth their salt, will block port 3306 to mysql.
It is a simple and basic security measure, that must be left in place.
So I [...]
I have been teaching people to read faster for years. So a few years ago, I got round to pushing all the techniques into an application.
The main advantage of this is the instant results, no more learning curve... Give it a go, and tell me what you think.