I had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year and, as is common this time of year, friends and family made the normal mentions of things, places, people, or any other sort of noun that they are thankful. Of course, I agree with the most common objects of gratitude:...
My Open Source Initiative
I’ve been looking at some of the older code I’ve had sitting on my various hard drives and Dropbox accounts and realised something: a lot of this code is not that novel. There is nothing wrong with it, but a lot of just solves problems that I find myself having to...
Dependency Anti-Patterns
Open source frameworks are great and I encourage you to use them when appropriate. However, there is a such a thing as too much of a good thing. There is a point where your project becomes more a stitched together Frankenstein’s monster than an elegant well crafted...
Thanks JB Community
If you listened to Coder Radio this week you would have heard toward the end that I have been working on a project targeted for the Ubuntu App Store. You will have also heard that I ended up choosing Mono as the development stack for the project; I plan on writing a...
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