Tim Parkin
Google URLs
Simon Willison `posts`_ that he typically now uses a set of keywords rather
than a domain to access a website (e.g. although I now know the url for both,
I would have typed "`css garden`_" or "`css vault`_" into google).
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More Leeds Bloggers
Aha .. Following the `Leeds Webring`_ has led me to someone else who has just
updated their blog. Looks very nice too. `Paul Holloway`_ is also working on
an issue tracker for his employer.
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Discovering Leeds Bloggers
I've sort of made is a task to try to find more people in Leeds who blog. I
know of the `Leeds webring`_ through `Neil's World`_ and his mentioning of it
`here`_. I'm going to have a good look around to see what's happening in the
blogging fraternity up North.
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Added Journal to main site
We've integrated out jounral/blog system with the rest of the site. Keep an eye out for new posts or subscribe to one of our rss feeds.
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Nested Set Genius
I've found a new methodology. This solves one of the problems in nested sets
(the transitive closure problem, i.e. You have to make space for new nodes by
shifting every node up by one? a simple reduction of the problem, not
accurate but you get the idea).
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Unit Testing Database Access
Unit testing is all well and good until you start processing lots of data
from databases or the like. At this point, you want to assert that your
results are as you expect. The problem here is that it is obviously a pain to
type out the list of lists or dictionaries that are returned where you are
more likely to make a mistake in transferring it to code.
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