Amusing / October 29, 2009

Sorry, You’re Not Jade Baxter

This is all too common. You’ve developed some minor tool to meet a specific purpose, whether it’s a batch file, JavaScript, Visual Basic macro, whatever. You know other people around the office will use your tool, but it’s not worth the investment in handling real error cases or writing proper documentation. Instead, you just throw

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Amusing / October 27, 2009

Windows 7 compatibility

I’m working on the follow up to my Object-Oriented Programming post, but in the meantime I had to share this: I tested Icefall on Windows 7 for the first time today (having developed & tested exclusively on Windows XP SP 3 up until now). It worked perfectly, in fact it ran a little more smoothly

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