Third time lucky! After two days of novelty nonsense, the vase of fate served up a pint half-litre of the Harviestoun Brewery’s 4.8% masterpiece Schiehallion,…
Life would be simpler if I had the source code
Year: 2005
Well, this evening’s advent beer couldn’t be more different from yesterday’s. I had the dubious pleasure of sampling Crazy Ed’s Cave Creek Chili Beer, all…
This is surely one of the best ideas I’ve ever had! I’ve gone through with my plan to buy twenty-four beers from around the world…
Here’s a damn useful piece of information which should be in the armoury of every modern codemonkey: In Java, if it is required to round…
Some days I feel like I’m spitting in the wind. It amazes me that the following ten concepts, websites and applications aren’t more widely used:…
Isn’t it funny how one’s tastes change as maturity progresses? I used to spend my summer holidays at the sea-side, playing in arcades and seeking…
If you like maths problems, and you like programming (and hey, who doesn’t?), then you’ll love Project Euler.
Holy cow, one of the limestone towers at Australia’s Twelve Apostles park has collapsed into the sea! It was the one in the foreground of…
Paul Welter has backported the System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class from .NET 2.0 to 1.1. Handy. http://weblogs.asp.net/pwelter34/archive/2005/07/01/416999.aspx
I know it’s a rather geeky and dry subject, but I found this MSDN article on new recommendations for using strings in .NET 2.0 quite…