Fairly surprisingly (no, really bloody amazingly) the IE team has decided to make IE8 “interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can“. This is a welcome change (although we’re still having to make things work for IE6, of course!) What’s interesting about it is the willingness to put themselves on the side of […]
I have to say, as a long-time non-fan of Javascript, the idea of depending on it to make things nicer didn’t really appeal. I think my subconcious was successfully preventing me from following those tempting links on Webreference, Sitepoint and of course Adaptive Path, promising me the ability to take my web apps to the […]
Just a few days ago, I moved over to using Subversion for version control instead of good ‘ol CVS. Although it’s basically CVS evolved, it somehow feels different. Anyway, so far so good. I’ll report back here if there’s anything interesting to report.
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 […]