Posts under ‘Thoughtful’

Things to come

A bit of a taster really, a post about the things that I intend to write – well that’s one way of getting me to ensure that I do write them.
NestedListHelper
I’ve written a helper to generate nested UL’s from the results of a find(‘threaded’) call. I’ve been using the helper to generate the nested lists [...]

A Theory of Project Costs

Lately I’ve been giving a lot of though to the way costs for projects are estimated. It always seems a very hit and miss affair. One designer I used to work with used to work out the costs as accurately as he could and then double whatever number he came up with – this worked [...]

I feel… everything

Recently my friend and ex colleague Hannah Storie pointed me towards a wonderful piece of online art called ‘We Feel Fine’ http://www.wefeelfine.org. We feel fine is a work of art both on the level of… well art and looks to be a beautiful demonstration of the programmer’s art. As an artist and as a programmer [...]

Electricity

I saw two videos today both of them were disturbing in thier own ways the similarity – electricity.
The first one shows a guy with the worlds fastest electric drag bike – crashing it.

The second clip shows a student getting zapped with a tazer gun at a rally for US presidential candidate John Kerry.

Interesting Times

I’ve recently handed in my notice, and am leaving COSMIC. As is the way of these things though, everything has got quite interesting all of a sudden.
For instance, there has been quite a lot of interest in the car share booking system that I wrote for www.moorcar.co.uk – it is a curious situation to be [...]