Brendan McKenzie

I gave myself a problem. I started reading about test-driven development (TDD), and it had me intrigued. The way I generally developed websites was having the presentation layer of my applications (mainly MVC websites) somewhat tightly coupled with the data source. Controllers would be access the database via L2S or EF and pass the returned model to the view. This works, sometimes (small projects, etc...), but it isn't exactly great when projects start to expand and testing becomes useful.

Well I'm not sure it's just Polish that's hard to learn, coming from English everything seems difficult. I've come to conclude it's due to a couple of things...

So after a hard drive crash and a memory upgrade my MacBook is back up and running with OS X Lion and Xcode installed.

There is a clear distinction between a mobile application and a mobile web application. Mobile applications are natively compiled applications that run on mobile devices, mobile web applications are regular web applications designed to run on mobile devices.

Today marks the one month point of me starting my new life in Canada and there have been certain things that I just can't get my head around. Granted I have been living in London (England, not Ontario) for the past two years and the city is significantly bigger, older and more established, but sometimes I just find myself saying: 'Seriously?'

The greatest keyboard ever made. It's a little bit more expensive but it is most definitely worth it. The keyboard action is so comfortable, the form factor is nice and slender. The back-lit keys are a little bit unnecessary but it does add a nice effect.

In 1989 a company called Gap Star was started in Holland, in 1996 they went international and one of the ramifications of doing so was a clash with a certain other large international clothing brand that inevitably forced them to rename themselves, as what we now know as G-STAR.

Having just started a new job where I'll be working on a particular product for some time, I've spent the last couple of days reviewing the code base, documentation and database structure.

I just wanted to make mention how cool this is, now I don't have to look at my ugly blog site to post blogs on it!

I encountered an issue with XPages and a text field in a Lotus Notes document.