http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk Entrepreneurship, web technology and the user experience Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:55:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...which I found in the blog of a german journalist living in London, writing about what happens if you have a great zest for life and are disabled at the same time. I don't want to describe it there. Just watch it (it's a short movie), it's really worth it. And ... http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2008/08/02/something-about-accessibility/ Did you know that there is such thing as a World Rock Paper Scissors Society which does hold regular tournaments and country championships and even a world championship (where the world champion will be awarded 10,000 $)? Maybe this way of decision making is strongly underrated. http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2008/08/02/decision-making-for-experts/ I believe strongly that teams of software engineers should have good tools which help to manage the development process (as a minimum, bug tracking and version control of source code). We use Subversion and FogBugz, but there are lots of other good tools too. These tools get particularly useful when ... http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2008/07/31/bug-trackers-and-version-control/ This page has been offline for the last 24 hours because I messed up the server on which it was running (now I've moved it to another one). I officially hate system maintenance... The server was running Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) which is now getting a bit old and gradually coming towards ... http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2008/07/26/ubuntu-upgrade-woes/ A few years ago, I was discussing the tensions between relativism and religion with a friend. In a vastly simplified nutshell, relativism is an understanding of the world which is founded on the principle that everything we know and perceive is relative to our own person (e.g. we perceive the ... http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2008/06/10/hermann-bondi-arrogance-of-certainty/ Choosing a web application framework. Aaaaargh, the pain. Ok, so we're actually in a pretty lucky situation right now: We have a new, substantial web development project, which we're designing from scratch. It's for a feature-rich, complex web application, it has got to scale well, and it has got to be ... http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2008/05/11/ruby-on-rails-vs-java-enterprise/ Seen this morning: PENNY, a german supermarket chain, sells typewriters. http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2008/04/29/comeback-from-the-stone-age/ Lunchtime! Vegetables au gratin, not bad after all. In our factory canteen you can only pay cash. We're nearly the last one. I know of a couple of lunchrooms who do accept only chip cards which you can charge on an automat. This may have some advancements (you don't have ... http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2008/04/16/one-day-without-computers-and-digital-stuff-is-it-possible-part-3/ In case you didn't know: In Cambridge, bicycles rule the roads. In the the more studenty parts of the city at least. Ok, it's nothing like what you get in many Asian cities, but by European standards it's not bad, as demonstrated by this video (embedded below, or follow this ... http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2008/04/09/tour-de-france-entrepreneurship/ I've just worked out how you could make a 3G iPhone yourself, even adding GPS support, and still get away with a lower cost than buying a regular iPhone. The solution: Get an iPod Touch (from £199). Get a Symbian smartphone, such as the N95, with an internet plan (on 3 you'd ... http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2008/03/30/do-it-yourself-3g-iphone/