Archive for June, 2010

Refactoring explained to an absolute beginner

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Recently while on a drive with a non-programmer friend, I talked with him about code complexity and manageability, how very complicated code is detrimental to productivity and stuff like that. Later on, I decided to explain it to him with actual code examples, although the most he has ever done ...

The best old “indie” games

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Just for fun, here's a list of the best old shareware/freeware games I played before Windows XP and such even existed... The word indie is quoted because these games would probably be called that nowadays, but weren't back then :D

Blog moved

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

If you see this it means everything has now been moved and the DNS has propagated correctly :) Please let me know if anything appears broken (Leave a comment or contact me via email/IM)

Moving hosting providers

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

I'll be switching hosts from Dreamhost to MediaTemple this weekend, so you may experience hiccups. There will be a new post when the blog has moved.

Solving the alt-tab problem: My solution

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Lately there's been some discussion about "the alt tab problem" - In other words, when you have lots of windows open and when working on something you constantly jump between a few of them. Basically when doing this, it becomes tricky to recall which window you get when you alt ...