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Archive for the ‘Web development’ Category

After a fairly unproductive (but very enjoyable) weekend I felt it was time to do something constructive. So I spent a little time applying a new theme and shoving in a plugin to display my flickr photostream and Twitter. I have also updated the content a little.
I am toying with the idea of learning Python, [...]

19 May, 2008

Reinventing the wheel

Posted by: Chris In: Web development

During your computer science course you are taught that reinventing the wheel, i.e solving an already solved problem, is obviously counter-productive. Thats why there are constructs such as OOP which help you to reuse code, so you can spend time solving new, problem-domain specific problems.
For this reason, I sometimes find myself annoyed when I come [...]

It’s sometimes good to take stock on whats happened so far and to see how well, or more accurately, how badly I have been doing with my new years resolutions
Music, film and that kind of stuff
I have been quite busy in this respect this year, I have been to a number of gigs with more [...]


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Hello, I am Chris James, I am a programmer based in London. I enjoy standards based web development, working in .NET with C#. This blog is mainly a diary for me but I occasionally will post about web development issues when the mood suits me.

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