I would have thought that if anywhere was going to be free from decisions based on faith rather than facts then it would be the world of IT. How wrong that seems to be. There seem to be a particular set of zealots in the computing world, especially around the internet, who have a reglious …
Working with PHP 5 I thought the ‘magic’ method __toString would be a really great way of substituting objects for simple data types. That seemed the whole point of good object oriented design, so I could change the way a piece of data worked without having to track down every call to it and change …
I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seems that every innovation or change in working practice in the internet industry seems to result in tasks taking more work and costing more money. CSS is a big gripe Supposedly, with the introduction of standards and the death of Netscape as a popular browser, the …
Martin Jol certainly seems to be doing the business at Spurs. I don’t know what it is, but he seems very well suited to the club and really keen to make some progress. It’s obviously working as well with one of their best unbeaten stretches for some time. Spurs news on the BBC Spurs official …
I was lucky enough to get a copy of “Rome: Total War” (“RTW”) for Christmas and, as an addict of “Medieval: Total War” (“MTW”) I was too excited even to install it for a couple of hours. (Actually, I rushed to conquer Europe in the medieval game; I knew there’d be little chance of playing …