I write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. When I buy the current issue, I'll publish the article from the issue a year ago. Since I've just bought the issue for April 2009, here's April 2008's article. […]
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READ MOREThe partygoers a couple of weeks ago were sniggering behind my back when they left. It seems that it wasn't Peter Gabriel leaving Genesis that triggered the self-referential name of their next album, but Steve Hackett (thanks to me old mate Larry for pointing it out to me). Man, my memory is surely going. I could have sworn I was right, but Larry and wikipedia have shown me the error of my ways. This week, undeterred, I'm going for broke... […]
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READ MOREWell, the partygoers are going to be mightily confused from this random selection. I'd better pour a half-bottle of vodka in the punch (I'm going to stick to my bottle of Maudite from Canada), because we're going all over the map both in terms of music genre and decade. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a couple of months. When I buy the current issue, I'll publish the article from the issue a year ago. […]
READ MOREAnother stop on the road to becoming a JavaScript developer when you know C#. Fire up Firebug in Firefox and follow along. […]
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