Monthly Archives: February 2010

Could the iPad be the tipping point?

By Sharpy | Published: February 8, 2010
Update: To get where I’m coming from here I highly recommend that you read the following articles from Joel on Software: Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems and Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!. The tipping point, Joel on Software: One thing you see a lot when there is a transition from an [...]
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Software is hard

By Sharpy | Published: February 8, 2010
Allan Odgaard’s Textmate Blog lead me to the linked article: If you’re doing top-down design, you produce a specification that stops at some level of granularity. And you always risk discovering, come implementation time, that the module or class that was the lowest level of your specification hides untold worlds of complexity that will take [...]
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The complexity stick

By Sharpy | Published: February 7, 2010

Humanity has a habit of glorifying complexity. "Gritty" movies are hailed as masterpieces, whilst wonderfully simple stories of love and loyalty perform poorly. I wonder if someone hit me with the complexity stick too many times. I wonder if it was me.

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Thematic

By Sharpy | Published: February 4, 2010
Wrote a post a little while back saying that I’d returned to the default WordPress theme Kubrick. This is no longer the case. (I can’t actually remember when I switched away.) Now I’m actually using the theme framework known as Thematic. It’s got a nice minimalist default stylesheet, with great support for extensions and customisations [...]
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The purpose of serving in the church

By Sharpy | Published: February 4, 2010
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the [...]
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