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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Upping the ante in maths.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

It’s August, so we have had the school leaving exam results and as is typical, there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth about maths. Put simply, we’re not good enough at it.
Collectively, I mean. There are some individuals doing nicely. Anyway, one of the options being suggested to improve interest in maths is [...]

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Coding without comments

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Via Robert the Grey and Jesse Liberty, I have been thinking about code comments and how necessary they are, and I have come to the conclusion that some people have just never really written assembler.
Jesse’s argument for his project is as follows:

Comments rust faster than code, even when you’re careful
Well written code can be read, [...]

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Failed personal projects – NowILiveHere.com

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

One of the hardest things you have to do sometimes is reflect on projects which fail for whatever reason. For me, the key one is just occasionally, an idea comes along and I cannot give it the time it requires to make it work. We have only got a limited amount of time, it seems.
For [...]

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