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A new Travel site, and four uses for tags

Here at Guardian Unlimited we’ve just launched our new Travel site. You’ll be able to read a lot about it in the industry press, but I just wanted to write a little what we’ve done from a technical-managerial point of view. The project motivation is ideal The main strands of our business are editorial, commercial … Continue reading »

Javascript puzzler: throw null

I know this isn’t really the place to post code, and I’m sorry. But this is why I don’t like loosely typed languages. I was caught by a Javascript nasty earlier this week (no I don’t code professionally, this was for fun) which boils down to the code below. What you think could happen here…? … Continue reading »

Measuring development is useful, up to a point

There’s a post from Joel O’Software regarding measuring performance and productivity. He’s saying some good stuff about how these metrics don’t work, but I’d like to balance it with a few further words in favour of metrics generally. Individual productivity metrics don’t work, but some metrics are still useful, including team metrics which you might … Continue reading »

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