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Of Jeff Atwood's list of 16 recommended books for developers I have read zero. Ditto this list of Top 20 Programming Books . Searching though Amazon recommended programming book lists also yielded no hits. When learning a new software development technology or idea I have always turned to the web. Blogs, articles, open source projects and so on, leaving the books I read largely to fiction. What am...
A red letter day in the history of the Internets: I now have over 500 bookmarks on del.icio.us . About del.icio.us for those of you who aren't familiar with it is an online social bookmarking website. Essentially what del.icio.us does is it allows you to save your bookmarks onto its website instead of local on your computer like a browser does. Another cool feature is it can tag bookmarks with words...
I'd like to thank the Mindscape team for the iPod they gave me. Mindscape ran a competition for feedback given during LightSpeed's beta and my name came out of the hat. I had a good time using it with my Silverlight project and it was great seeing them implement some of my suggestions. LightSpeed iPod Winner
When growing up from time to time when I gave my name to someone I was often asked if I had any any relation to the Newton King of Taranaki . Apart from knowing that someone of importance must have lived there, I never had any idea what they were talking about. After yet again being asked about the subject yesterday I bit the bullet and googled the name . It turns out a man called Newton King (first...
Google Analytics was down for a few hours today. While it is not unusual for an ASP service to have downtime, Google Analytics works by you including a link to their Javascript file on your website and while the website was down today that file was also unavailable. Anyone who linked to the file in the page header will have found that their websites were not loading. This is because no page content...
