Cambridge was the penultimate city of the Stack Overflow DevDays world (or America and Europe) tour and was situated at Robinson College at Cambridge University. The day was a great opportunity to see introductory presentations on the hotness in the developer community, and also to meet other devs and heroes of mine. The Carsonified team (who were running the events) …

Users don’t like change. Perhaps one of the most apt demonstrations of this is with Facebook. Only today, changes were made to Facebook, basically consisting of a new setting on the front page:

Which can be changed to:

(Dependent on your level of stalkiness).
Being a moody teenager myself, I am, naturally in contact with.. A lot of moody teenagers. And there has …

I’ve been working on a software project recently, and I got to the point which every software developer dreads: naming. Although naming isn’t the most important feature of a piece of software, it’s good to come up with a name that at least works pretty well. This particular Dilbert cartoon comes to mind:

As Jeff Atwood noted on Episode #37 of …

Humans are moany creatures. From digressing about the over-roasted nature of Starbucks coffee to how our neighbours are too noisy, we like to complain about how difficult our life is.
And people like to complain about software. People moan about the price, the poor documentation (often with good reason) and the lack of enough features. But indecisiveness is engraved in our …