Monthly Archives: August 2006

One of the difficulties that having sub-domains is that you need to have lots of DNS entries for them. This is particularly annoying if you want to run the site on your development machine – ie 127.0.0.1. That is why … Continue reading →

Joel Spolsky had some fun with stuff you can do in JavaScript – I’ve done something similar with Perl. Can your language do this? This is one of the nicer introductions to anonymous subroutines that I’ve seen, as well as … Continue reading →

In 1986 the excellent book ‘Programming Pearls’ was first published. Amongst other things it looks at binary searching, shows how tricky it can be to get right and presents some code that is correct. Unfortunately the code has a bug … Continue reading →

Recently I needed to go to Southampton and stay overnight at a hotel on ‘Botley Road’. There are two Botley Roads less than a mile apart and my satnav picked the wrong one – meaning that I wasted over an … Continue reading →