Archive for January, 2007

Open Source Can’t Blame Piracy

I recently read an article by John Knight in which he slates piracy as a major factor for the poor performance of open source software. Personally – I couldn’t disagree more. Open source can not blame its poor performance on piracy and when it does I feel its nothing more than a scape goat for [...]

Practice Makes Perfect

Its always good to hone your programming skills outside of your usual day-to-day job with a selection of different challenges.  That’s why I’ve compiled a list of games, quizes and challenge sites for programmers which are useful for any language. 1. Code Kata Created by Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers this is a regular [...]

10 Project Motivation Tips

I don’t know about you but I often used to find I had loads of energy at the beginning of a project and then at 80-90% completion I see myself flagging. I feel bored, frustrated and the project (if not impreritive) would fall by the wayside. Numerous are the projects of my collegues which remain [...]