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programming, software architecture, design, user-experience
28 April 2009
Code as Exploration of Unknown Territory
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I have come to view coding as the act of exploring and charting unknown territory -- the wilderness of our cognitive space. If we let it, ...
21 April 2009
Sun and Oracle
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TL;DR: A fucking disaster for everybody except Oracle and Sun's execs and (maybe) shareholders. i.e. The Kakistocracy wins and the rest...
13 April 2009
Twitter
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Twitter looks vaguely interesting. Not too much. Not enough for me to bother with it. I think it's very Flavour Of The Day. But it does...
26 March 2009
SL-275 and Java Programmer Certification
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Midweek; past the halfway mark (in time, anyway) of teaching Sun's SL-275 "Java Programming Language" course. I wonder how ma...
18 January 2009
Open Course Development
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It strikes me that, whilst I am deep into the design of a number of programming-related courses, I am making a terrible mistake . The mistak...
30 December 2008
Teaching Servlets and JSP
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It's the end of a week teaching Sun's SL-314 course -- "Web Component Development with Servlets and JSP" in Cape Town. It...
15 November 2008
Brain Delayed - In Transit
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On my way down to Cape Town -- yet again -- for a Java Intro course -- yet again... On arrival at the checking-desk, get told that I'm...
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