I couldn’t help myself - this “Bill of Rights” is appropriate to just about anyone who is paid real money (including the “Aussie Lira”, at anything much above minimum wage) to do any sort of developing or designing.

Without Further Ado: Programmers Bill of Rights.

The first two are the most important though -

1) Every programmer shall have two monitors

2) Every programmer shall have a fast PC

Incidentally, this is just what I’m trying to convince the powers that be at work (a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz laptop w/ 512M ram is just not cutting it).

Even my old PC at home Athlon 1800XP w/ 1GB RAM was still outperforming this laptop 5-1.
Then I upgraded to an Athlon 64 3500+ w/ 2GB RAM - and it’s now great for developing on.

I found this article by a colo[u]r blind web designer (via digg) quite interesting… at the bottom of the article he links to a bunch of tests for colour blindness.

I’ve always had a bit of difficulty with these - but I was just assuming it was just a focus issue. The final image on page 1 was the thing that convinced me that there might be a slight insensitivity in the red-green area.

My father is red-green colourblind, so I guess it shouldn’t be that big of a suprise.

I can see all the colours quite fine (afaik), in normal circumstances - and I have no trouble with a RGB colour pallete - so I’m guessing it’s just a very slight insensitivity.

Edit: Well… maybe not… I can see them fine on my LCD panel at home, it’s probably just the screwy work laptop screen…

I was reading my usual tech news sources today, and discovered this article about someone having difficulties activating windows.
Its a reasonable article, and you can really understand the issues this guy had.

Then I saw this at the end of the article:

(Click to view in original size. Orange border added by me, otherwise - that’s how it appeared on screen)

Here’s a hint: If you’ve got so many social bookmarking site links on your article, that they wrap to a second line (at 1024×768) - you’ve got too many.

Seriously… this is terrible. It’s the Web two-point-duh equivilent of obnoxious animated gifs, and font-size=24 back in… Oh, wait.. that still happens, it’s just on MySpace now.

Edit: Ok, so that screenshot was too big for the layout here…

Dilbert can sometimes be a bit boring - especially to those who don’t work in an office environment within a medium or large company.

For those that do work in that kind of environment - it’s usually somewhere between scary, depressing, and funny, depending on your point of view and current mental health.

Today’s Dilbert is a bit on the depressing side.

Buzz-words in there that I’ve heard in use where I work:
* Drill-Down
* Dashboard
* Bandwidth
* Ping (once)

Others I’m sure are soon to come
* Cheese
* Bloatware
* Bubble[d] Up
* Bake-off
* Drink from the Firehose

Read this article: BitTorrent arrives for books (The Inquirer).

The article title is a bit misleading - but nontheless, it’s a good idea - community based book exchanging, in essence. For real books, not electronic. And no… there’s no cutting up or copying of books involved.

The site in question: Bookmooch

From a Whirlpool thread .NET Shourt Courses in Syd[ney].

Some interesting links Paul Stovell provided:
* Sydney .NET Users Group
* Sydney Deep .NET Users Group
* Australian .NET Mailing List

… I need to go subscribe, do some training (if work will pay for it, and give me time, and not want a bunch of BJs and stuff to go with it).

I need to find a bunch of locals (apart from Jack) who do .NET… Yeah, that means Newcastle, NSW, Australia. (The top few links on Google didn’t help much)

Oh, and while I’m at it: Builder AU User Groups