Monthly Archives: July 2007
Destructive Smacktards
Last week on the way home from work I noticed that someone had parked their car on the side of the motorway. It was parked in a bit of a precarious position to be honest, on the side of a … Continue reading
Ruby .NET Runtime Released
Microsoft have recently released another dynamic language runtime built on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime, this time for Ruby. Ruby.NET is implemented using a new .NET library that Microsoft are calling the Dynamic Language Runtime. The DLR provides … Continue reading
Dashes Versus Underscores, It Doesn’t Matter
One of the common strategies employed during search engine optimisation has involved placing high visibility keywords and phrases into the URL. Using this search engine optimisation technique lead to URL’s which looked like: http://domain.com/mysuperdooperproduct.html http://domain.com/my-super-dooper-product.html http://domain.com/my_super_dooper_product.html For quite some time … Continue reading
Sandwich Protocol
Stewart describes the process of ordering a sandwich as if it were a computer protocol – funny stuff.
Debunking The Bigpond Broadband Signup Myth
Since moving house at the start of June, I’ve been without any internet connectivity at home. It’s surprising how often you use the internet at home (not including the geek side of things) and I cannot believe how much Claire … Continue reading