September 2011
2 posts
How bad can a public website get?
I was trying to report a non-urgent crime (vehicle incident I witnessed involving another bike rider) in London. The Met police force site came up nicely in Google and there was a sitemap and looked like the possibility of finding the right form through deep links via search.
Firstly the Met police force site gave me a nice 502 error (any page), in full tomcat style (at least it wasn’t a...
Readme Driven Development →
Really good post on writing your read-me first
Found that writing user manual first was very helpful for writing the sugar api for Brainstorm realtime 3d engine: http://cleverplugs.com/sugar/
Oddly I ended up writing api methods that seemed unlikely to be used other than for a learner trying out the engine. However they made the learning process much easier (and encourage console/command-line...