Category Archives: Rants

Cooking and Coding

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Jacques Chester

Sometimes, when we programmers sit down to explain programmer, we resort to the hoary old cooking metaphor. “Programming is like cooking”, we say. “We write recipes, and the computer carries them out”. And sometimes methodologists apply it to our work … Continue reading →

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iWork Numbers 2008 can’t deal with time durations

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Jacques Chester

A very annoying discovery. One of the common complaints about the Personal Software Process is that there’s a lot of data-entry and number crunching. The data entry I can’t do too much about (though compare Hackystat), but number crunching is … Continue reading →

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What The Fashion

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Jacques Chester

One of my main guilty pleasures in life is to watch Australia’s Next Top Model. I took up the habit because of the recaps in those august blogs of humorous record, Bland Canyon and Jo Jo Blogs. The former also … Continue reading →

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