wade womersley – york based software engineer
Engineering notes from the sharp end
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Today’s work was a standard day, well except for the morning, actually no, that was a standard morning too, things didn’t work too well, they needed fixing, during which there were random jokes at Ben’s expense due to his pure love of graphs. With some help from Remo (my team manager) though, we did manage … Read More “Today’s musings” »
…but never go to the gym without some kind of energy source. A piece of advice I keep meaning to pay attention to but it’s a case of “do as I say, not as I do.” I got home from work, had a drink of juice, quickly ate a Snickers then straight off to the … Read More “It goes without saying…” »
PHP and Serializing…don’t try and store the result in a plain text file, there’s just a chance you may end up storing NUL so when you go to read a line, you’ll end up only reading part of it (the serialized object had a stack trace in it from an exception.) Incidentally, don’t try and … Read More “Another day, another group of PHP “funness”” »
No I don’t have a fetish for underwear, I just like to be comfortable and you don’t get much more comfortable than Aussiebum’s! We ordered some new underwear last week and after getting home from work today, it had arrived, fresh for Australia in the post. My favorites have to be the Saturate range, very … Read More “New underwear!” »
The title isn’t really correct as, well, they’re not fundamentals…however they’re not fun so that was my best effort to get sarcasm into the title. I love programming in PHP, and I must admit, I do enjoy finding solutions to problems that most people would probably tear their hair out over; but from time-to-time, PHP … Read More “PHP FUNdamentals” »
Opera 10 has now been released and can be downloaded from the official Opera website. It is available in 43 different languages for Windows, Linux and Mac. New features include: Opera turbo Opera’s proxy servers are now used for image and content compression so even people on a slower connection should experience a speed boost. … Read More “Opera 10 Final Available” »
I’m not really a fan of x-factor but I stumbled on this video from the current series and…well it has to be watched:
An apt name for a first post by a programmer if ever I saw one. Finally got around to started the process of building a website for my work and for my ego (it’s a website about me, there’s ego there, I can’t deny that). Over time I’ll populate this website with stuff I find … Read More “Hello world!” »
