Now for some web specific whys/values I do the in-memory acceptance testing… Semantic Html is my golden hammer Progressive enhancement is my swiss army knife I love JavaScript but try to never write any but if i must I make sure it’s generic. I try very hard to make sure no else writes any either […]

Wow Dyson have done it again: http://www.dyson.co.uk/technology/airmultiplier.asp Interestingly they talk about the fact they had to do “Hundreds of iterative tests” to get the design right: http://www.dyson.co.uk/insidedyson/default.asp#Air_Mult_Tech_Dev

So I noticed an issue with Google Chromium and it not updating the cached entry with new headers on a HTTP 304 response. So I logged the issue last weekend and bang! 6 days later the issue is resolved and I have a new version of the browser on my desktop. Not only was the […]

So after rediscovering the distraction free editors to write reports, it seemed mad not to use the same environment to update my blog. I really like the fact that the editor only supports plain text and didn’t want to reduce the readability of the plain text by having lots of unneeded markup all over the […]

So many moons ago I was reading about a fullscreen editor for Mac called WriteRoom. The basic premise is that it is a very limited editor that actively aims to block out all distractions from writing. It achieves this by: Running fullscreen (so no desktop distractions) Supporting plain text only (so no styling distractions) No […]

UPDATE: Jim pointed out that you can access the field via reflecting over the delegate.  (See comment) Damn this is a bit like how java does anonymous access to private fields of the parent class. I wonder if you could use this for some nasty security violations as people tend to think local variables are […]