“I want to get from London to New York in 12 minutes.” “Ok, we will have to design and build some sort of ICBM or buy one, that will cost a lot of money. Also, I’m not even sure you can get an ICBM that’s fast enough for that distance. And have we thought about [...]
An interesting set of slides by Simon Brown from a talk he gave about the role of the architect. A PDF is attached to the linked post or you can view the slides online. Wish I had heard the talk (see below). The Frustrated Architect: Software architecture plays a pivotal role in the delivery of [...]
Why is it that yesterday Mail.app decided it did not have a local cache of my imap mail boxes anymore and it must refetch every one? Maybe I should switch back to Mailplane.
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog): You might almost think that the whole scheme had been cooked up by a bunch of hyperintelligent but hopelessly socially naive people, and you would not be wrong. Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender. Our industry abounds in [...]
You know, just because Java is going to gain a switch statement that works on java.util.String still doesn’t make it right. It’s still a code smell for an OO design fail. Although the diamond syntax and lambdas are way overdue (see article). Java is not the new COBOL | Craig Tataryn’s .plan: A switch statement [...]
In a nutshell, yuk. Everything moves! Drag it about! Ultimate customisable universal everything! Drag the divider for Chat and Labels up and down (but how about “Hide Chat”?)?! God, how I miss the old beta Gmail. I’ve stopped using the actual Gmail interface in recent days, when I sued to enthuse about it. Now Apple’s [...]