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A fan with no blades?

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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

Google Chromium Team rocks!

Saturday, September 5th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ...

Using a fullscreen editor to update my blog

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ...

Fullscreen Editors

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ...

Html Contracts – How semantic html can help your cross functional team

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized, web | No Comments »

One of the pain points we see on web projects is the divide between client side and back end development. This pain might show itself in a number of ways: Small changes in the HTML cause lots of tests to fail Small ...

So how about truly private fields in C#?

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

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 ...

Truly private fields in JavaScript

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

So I was chatting with Christian Blunden about JavaScript, and he asked if it was possible to have private fields in JavaScript. Now the language doesn't have a key word but I knew that you could use function scoping to achieve ...

Finally setup my technical blog

Saturday, October 6th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Okay, after 4 years of people asking me, I finally setup a technical blog.