Toyota, you know you are in trouble 7

Posted by Peter Morris Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:17:00 GMT

When even the geeks are making fun of you! http://www.xkcd.com/702/

Does anyone else work this way? 6

Posted by Peter Morris Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:11:00 GMT

It is just after 7am on Saturday morning and I have just completed the most intense half an hours work of my day. When I finished, I opened my eyes and turned over in bed with a smile.

JQUERY, before you go to bed, put your toys AWAY! 8

Posted by Peter Morris Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:11:00 GMT

I have been wrestling with an issue I have with jquery dialogues. When I hit an issue like this, I always assume it is my fault. Pretty safe bet that. But no! JQUERY does not put its toys back where it found them!

Interesting Book... 7368

Posted by Peter Morris Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:10:00 GMT

The article I mentioned about AREL mentioned a book that I really intend to look into.

Structure and interpretation of computer programs

YERS! get in there! Rails 3.0 FtW 166

Posted by Peter Morris Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:48:00 GMT

For the last 5 years I have classed myself as a Ruby on Rails developer. More recently, I realise I might possibly not be able to say that. I have been using Django a lot. I love RoR, but Django has some nice features. One of them is its ORM query mechanism, but things are changing....

Wait, stop, I have been doing it wrong for 20 years. 12

Posted by Peter Morris Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:24:00 GMT

IT, as in IT work.


I have been a professional coder (don't laugh) for over 20 years. Yesterday, My son(Alex, 12) and I where in the car, and as is natural, our discussion got around to copyright. Where it has been, where it is going, why it is as it currently is. During the discussion, I realised, I have run my career all wrong.

Coffee, Coding and Geographical Irrelevence 6

Posted by Peter Morris Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:25:00 GMT

A new coffee shop cum cafe opened up within walking distance recently, I have high hopes and detailed aspirations.