Closures are a really useful programming construct, but as they’re only just appearing in the C-family languages, they’re relatively new to me. In this article I show how they can be used to vastly simplify event-handler code in web development.
I don’t pretend to like Internet Explorer 6 – in fact quite the reverse – it makes me boiling mad that web developers still have to support an ancient browser. The sooner we can get rid of it, the better. So here’s my little idea…
I’d heard of Windows Live Mesh previously, but not really looked into it before. Since we’re trying to improve our backup systems at the moment, I thought I’d give it a whirl and see what it can do for us.
I spotted a question over on StackOverflow the other day that piqued my interest – “How do you handle scheduling/deadlines around programmers?” – and I thought I’d note down my thoughts since I’ve noticed that a lot of people either confuse deadlines with estimates, or feel there’s some sort of battle between programmers and managers.
