Yay! I’m going to dConstruct 2007 (barring accidents and work emergencies—don’t even think about it, Mike). The conference promises to be an interesting one with lots of brilliant-looking talks. The focus this year is user experience. UX is a really important topic for any web consultancy, so it’ll be good to learn from people who spend a considerable proportion of their time worrying about it.
I’m especially pleased to be going this year since I really wanted to go last year. Unfortunately, my mum fell seriously ill and I had a pretty sucky summer. Happily, she made a brilliant recovery and this summer promises to be much better (shitty weather aside).
Like all the cool kids, I’m on Pownce (bruceboughton), and—even cooler—I have 12 invites going spare. If you want one, leave a comment and I’ll invite you using the email address you supply.
Comments are moderated so won’t appear on the site immediately but I’ll keep it first-come-first-served.
To ask why the President of the United States would have a sexual encounter with a young woman is like asking why someone who worked very hard to earn a large sum of money would then spend it.
Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature by Alan S. Miller Ph.D., Satoshi Kanazawa Ph.D.
I’m just back from mountain biking round the forest at Stanmer Park with Steve, Jim and Paul from work, as well as some of Steve’s friends and one of Paul’s friends. We did about an hour-and-a-half, starting at Falmer, riding down through the University, behind my old halls (York House), round the top of Stanmer Park through the forest up to Ditchling Road and finally slalom-style downhill to the entrance of Stanmer Park and back through the uni to Falmer. There was just time for a pit stop at the local pub before it got dark and we had to clean off our bikes. Unfortunately, I was the only one to take a slide through the mud, but I was also the only one to manage to do a 360° spin, albeit unintentionally!
The hills were hard work and I got absolutely caked in mud, but it was definitely worth it. I’m definitely going to go again once I’ve got myself a bike (and a helmet!) and I really recommend it. There’s some brilliant tracks and some hair-raising slalom runs! I think I might have caught the bug…
The Singleton pattern is an important design pattern in programming. I wanted to implement this in PHP4. I wanted a generic function to store singletons of any type. I also wanted to implement keyed singletons (which for confusion’s sake I named multitons) so that I could store and access objects by their type and a well-known key (such as their primary key in a database).
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Its dictionary includes the word fucking out-of-the-box (via Daring Fireball).
PS: The second best thing about the iPhone is that it’s now available for purchase, so the hype might finally die down.
The weeks of waiting are finally over. Results are in and they’re good—very good. I got my First class Honours as I hoped for and Seb got a First too!
There was a surprise appearance from Guy McCusker—a brilliant lecturer who Sussex recently lost to Bath. Apparently it’s nice and quiet up there!
Anyway, time to chill out and enjoy the culmination of three years’ hard work.
Tomorrow is the day I’ve been working towards for three years — results day!
Results are out at 2pm and I’ve got the afternoon off work. Me, Seb (who also gets his results), Rich and Andy are heading into town to celebrate (regardless of what happens)!
Wish us luck!
