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This is indeed great news. Thanks to everyone who was involved in making this happen, it's fantastic news.

So write it.

Well, there's no other alternative at the moment. The only thing students are bound by is the curriculum and recommended texts. I for one, hope Amazon get onto it too. It's just a …

Mircosoft is also working towards launching it's own walled garden with a 70/30 split, from what I hear, due in late 2012. So then, they'll be a double stab

Wow. Thanks Microsoft for cluttering up yet another product with more UI Craptastic. Honestly I know it's all done in fun but really, people using the product are trying to concent…

And here is the reason I left photography and became a programmer. It's a great hobby and a shit profession.

cough ObjectiveC

This post should be titled, "Why I fucked up by choosing Ruby to write a game." - Or "What the fuck was I thinking" I love Ruby, I spend a lot of time writing it. I also write kids…

Ohh using a screenshot as a reference point. Nice. I like the idea of using screenshots as a test assertion.

I mean really, all abstraction is just taking a step further away from the real problems and optimisations right! Let's all just write Assembler specific to the given chip architec…

I'd go with either Mondrian, or Pollock myself. Impressionists, such as Monet began working towards abstraction for sure, but for Monet, it was more about capturing the fleeting na…

I am at odds to argue with Tufte but I will. The issue with touch screens is not that they lack the same surface texture as the objects they're imitating. It's that they're imitati…

He should start a donation fund to pay for the development of TextMate2. I'd happily throw a few hundred $$$ into that. I own TextMate 1, so I get the update for free. Problem for …

That's great, now you've got another crap looking website to add to your portfolio. Eventually you'll stop being paid. Just because the client's paying doesn't mean they've got a c…

bingo! I'll be my life that's exactly what's happened.

There's no need for encryption of anything. Send the service a number plate, it returns you an image, tick if that's you're car, and it'll tell you where it is. If it's not it goes…