Archive for December, 2004

Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

I’ve been reading Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches via the RSS feed. It’s interesting from the natural tone of it – just someone who’s there telling what he sees. The latest installment is more gruesome than usual – a new photo gallery from Falluja. I’ll let Dahr explain it, where you’ll also find a link to [...]

Refactoring, unit testing, all that…

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

I’ve always been more of a procedural kind of a programmer. After Spectrum BASIC and the inevitable QBASIC, it was on to C. This was all hobby and/or academic stuff. Professionally I used Perl far more than anything else, and always in an “if it works, f**k it!” type of methodology (thanks, Mr Hume, for [...]