Wellington – Lunch with geeks (21/08/2007)
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Posted August 21st, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Last week there was no lunch with geeks because of Tech Ed. Naturally we started our session rehashing what we thought were the highlights of Tech Ed NZ. In general everybody really liked the keynote by Lou Carbone and we were definitely not the only ones, mauricio has a more detailed post on the keynote. Anyway it was really entertaining and educational at the same time, I couldn't believe some of the things hotels do with towels and toilet rolls. Designing for to trigger emotions instead...
What’s your personality type ?
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Posted August 20th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Through John Clegg I found out about a personality test on bbc.co.uk. He has a more lengthy explanation on how he got there on his blog Anyway I'm always interested in finding out which type of person I am etc. So I could not resist and took the test.If you're like me and just itching to find out more about yourself or you just have some time to spare you can take the test here http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/whatamilike/ Apparently I'm a Big Thinker The four aspects that m...
Auckland Codecamp
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Posted August 13th, 2007 at 1:02 am
The last codecamp was a huge success :D We had lots of interesting speakers and I now know a lot more about the WCF service factory than I did before. My session at codecamp was about Javascript best practices. I think it went pretty well judging by the reactions I got from some of the people in the audience. I mentioned that I would put up my slides and the demo application In the afternoon I did not stay at codecamp but instead went with Alex James and Nikhil Kothari to explore Auckland f...
Lunch with geeks (7/8/2007)
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Posted August 10th, 2007 at 4:36 am
We had another geeks lunch on tuesday. We discussed a number of topics but focussed mainly on design patterns. Some of the observations we made are the following. The most overused design pattern : Singleton. With the remark that a singleton should only be used when you need to keep state in your object internally. You shouldn't care about design patterns until you figured out a couple yourself. This is a bit the chicken or the egg question because you would have to know the design patterns in o...
Re: Monorail vs. Rails isn’t a meaningful question
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Posted August 8th, 2007 at 4:15 am
Scott Bellware has put a post up with that exact title and this is my reply. While I can understand that people are dissapointed in asp.NET webforms doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole .NET framework. As I stated before ever since I moved off of webforms with their viewstate i don't get the wtf why isn't this working moments anymore. By now I have developped a number of small websites with managed content and a crm in RoR. While I like RoR in my case it does not save me time as oppo...
