Archive for the ‘Software Engineering’ Category

Naming Tips

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Here’s some great tips for naming conventions when coding. It will make your code more understandable, maintainable and easier to read if you follow these simple rules.

Code Faster

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Here’s a quick tip about some software that could potentially help you code a lot faster.

Caching

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

An interesting article about caching to help build a scalable website.

Apollo 11 source code released

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

As part of the 40th anniversary celebrations the original source code for the command module and lunar module have been released into Google code. Take a look here.

Scalable web architectures

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Here’s an interesting article about making web applications scaling. It highlights the fact that MySQL is generally the cause of most problems and what can be done allieviate these problems.

Patience & Hard work

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Just found this really nice post about trying to get your web app out there and making money.

Tesco API coming soon!

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

That’s right folks, if you want a RESTful API for accessing lots of Tesco’y goodness like nutritional information for products, processing customer logins and virtual shopping carts, the information in here will be just for you!

SQL databases are overapplied?

Friday, July 10th, 2009

An interesting piece, giving examples of why SQL database might not always be the best solution, with suggestions of what could be used instead.