Paul Dowman

This is the first post in my new blog. I’ll be posting links that I find interesting, and occasionally writing small articles. Eventually I’ll replace this plain default theme, but for now I’d rather just write.

To give you an idea of the type of things I find interesting, here are a few of the links that I’ve posted to del.icio.us and other places in the past:

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
• The trouble with rounding floating point numbers
• Continuous Integration
• The New Methodology
• Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
• TDD Pattern: Do not cross boundaries
• 13 Exceptional Exception Handling Techniques
• Monitoring network traffic with Ruby and Pcap
• Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser
• Functional Relational Programming
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
• The IBM PC’s 25 Year Legacy
• Kill All Screensavers
• Debunking the Myth of High-level Languages
• Errant Architectures
• History’s Worst Software Bugs
• How to Start a Startup
• The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
• FixedScopeMirage
• The Difference Between Values and Strategies
• The End of Corporate Computing
• How to Do What You Love
• Taste for Makers