Posts by Paul Bullough

Startup time

Does it still take half an hour to load the fonts?

Let me check ...

No! It starts in four seconds. Who are you and what have you done with Gimp?

Swap Shop

Hi Noel,

I'd like to swap a Speak & Spell and a Posh Paws (soiled) for an EMPpad.

Thanks.

Déjà vu

Wahey, it's X Windows all over again.

Creeps

I don't want to hear a hiss, turn around and see a creeper behind me in VR anyway.

They make me poop my pants enough as it is.

X-Box

Somehow, the X-Box brand name seems more appropriate for condoms than consoles.

TTPCom.com.co.uk.com

Caffeine addict,

This isn't TTP, just TTPCom which spun-off from of TTP many moons ago.

As far as I know, TTP is still there in Melbourn and doing ok.

Code still = design

Hypothetically (of course), if a "design" document says one thing and the code says another. What is the actual design of the resulting software, hmmm?

This does not mean that ancillary design documentation is not useful, nor that one should only have the code as the sole representation of ideas. There are other ways of representing and working with concepts beyond mere code, but they are there to help the design (the code), not separate design from code which cannot be done.

There are some famous essays on this, "Code as Design" by Jack W. Reeves. If you haven't read them yet I recommend them.

Paris Hilton, world's thinest Hippo ... crite

Yeah, the spelling doesn't quite work, but no techy is going to notice that.