This week came across Scratch Pad http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/scratchpad_benjaminseifert.html It fills a gap for just that a bit of notepad / jotting pad / scratch pad that has bugged me for a while – I have been using either notepad++ or text wrangler (depending on whether I’m on PC or Mac) – neither of which was quite [...]
Posts under ‘Thoughtful’
Plumptious
Damn. I thought I had invented a new word ‘Plumptious’ – a word to describe the shape of a healthy, happy looking baby (used to describe daughter no. 2). I am saddened gutted to find that it has already been coined. Lusciously plump, can be used sarcastically as a back handed endearment. she is very [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
