In recent weeks (since mid-July, really) the social networking website [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/) has become the centre of a pretty substantial hype storm. Whenever you see discussions of new websites…
Website programming
The [ABC](http://www.abc.net.au) launched a new website today, the most interesting part of which is the [ABC News](http://www.abc.net.au/news) site. It is, in a word, bold. Web 2.0 is getting…
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org) is one of the most incredible developments that I've ever seen. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit? Sounds like a fruitbat notion doomed to failure. But it's…
Winston with a shoe Originally uploaded by Exasperated Calculator. Here's another picture of the kitten, as well as a quick test of a new way of posting photos…
Several years too late, I've also gained an interest in proper version control. I'm using subversion, an open source version control system that has the advantage of integrating…
I've fallen victim to the latest craze sweeping the web development world, namely the insidious evil of Ruby on Rails. Ruby is a nice little object oriented programming…