My life as a coder

My boyfriend, Joe, talked me into buying an ipod on the weekend. Our conversation went something like this: Joe: Well didn’t you want to buy an ipod? Helen: What time is John Lewis open until? I’m smitten! Seriously! It’s just so lovely! Now I’ve had one a week I don’t know how I lived the [...]

One of the really significant changes I’ve made to the web project I’ve been working on for the past six months has been seperating all of the data access code into a data access layer that the other parts of the application can only access through interface classes that I’ve called datasources. I’ve set it [...]

I’m never too busy to back up my files. Never. Ever.

Goals: 1. Have the rest of the application interact with the data sources only through an interface 2. Make it so the rest of the application doesn’t have (even can’t) to know how the data sources work 3. Make it easy to change the DAL without affecting anything else 4. Keep all of the relevant [...]

You know I just realised I don’t really need to write my own blog software. I’ve done news scripts before, I wouldn’t really be learning anything new. The world already has a 1:3 blog software to web developer ratio. I can think of things that will be much more interesting and rewarding to do with [...]

So I’m finally going to do what I’ve been talking about for almost as long as I’ve been making webpages and that’s create a space where I can talk about them endlessly and store the useful bits of information I aquire. Yes it’s one of the ugliest pages I have unleashed on the internet since [...]