Author Archives: Graham Lee

Holding a problem in your head

The linkied article (via Daring Fireball) describes the way that many programmers work – by loading the problem into their head – and techniques designed to manage and support working in such a way. Paul Graham makes the comparison with … Continue reading

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Template change

I had to make some minor edits to the Blogger template used here anyway, so I decided to have a little monkey with the fonts. Here’s what you used to get: And here’s what you now get: I think that’s … Continue reading

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Random collection of amazing stuff

The most cool thing that I noticed today ever is that Google Maps now allows you to add custom waypoints by dragging-and-dropping the route line onto a given road. This is great! I’m going to a charity biker raffle thing … Continue reading

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It’s update o’clock

In other words, it’s "Graham remembers that someone needs to write the interwebs, too" time. The main reason I haven’t written in a while is that I’m enjoying the new job, so it’s satiating my hacking desires. No hacking projects … Continue reading

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Ich habe mein Handy verloren

Ooops. Left my mobile phone on holiday in Germany when I came back. This may explain why some people who were expecting to hear from me in Germany didn’t…anyway, could anyone who thinks I ought to know their phone number … Continue reading

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The new netiquette

It used to be that netiquette was all about TURNING OFF THE CAPS LOCK, making sure that the subject matched the content, that you didn’t go off the wall if someone didn’t reply to your e-mail in a few minutes, … Continue reading

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A bit late for that, isn’t it?

Just won the above-linkied item on eBay: the Amiga SDK :-) I’m probably slightly late to make any money out of Amiga development, but I’m glad I finally get to tinker. Might have to crack open the AROS if I … Continue reading

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Apple and Google sitting in a tree, f-i-g-h…erm…t-i-ng

This really came out of a throwaway comment I made on Daniel, but it seems popular to pick apart every last iota of Steveness from the WWDC keynote, and I’m nothing if not popular. So here we go. What is … Continue reading

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Miniwindows

Maybe it’s just me who gets annoyed by teeny-tiny miniaturised views which are completely illegible. Even so, I’ve just uploaded an article I wrote on Miniwindows which can be used in any OpenStep implementation such as Cocoa or GNUstep. It’s … Continue reading

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Moving on

There has been some cat-escaping-bagness, which is mainly my fault, but now that it’s all official I’m going to ‘announce’ it myself: I’ve got a new job! From the end of July, I’ll be working at Sophos as Senior Software … Continue reading

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