Michael Anthony Heap

Month :: March, 2009

Why A Web Development Project Is Like An 80km Hike

A few weeks ago, I went on a residential for the BELA and ML’s involved with the Duke of Edinburgh Award in my area. It was a fun weekend, with a couple of easy hikes (mainly to the pub!), and one more challenging hike for those who fancied it on the saturday afternoon. We spent…

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Parsing Tables In Text Files

osfameron had to develop something to parse fixed width text files, as his boss decided they were more use than csv files. He linked us to it in the #geekup IRC channel and Caius decided to implement it in Ruby. Then, Will decided to implement it in Python. I didn’t understand osfameron’s version too much,…

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Zombies Are Dangerous – To Your Productivity

A few weeks ago, I finally caved in and bought Left4Dead on steam. I wanted the price to come down a bit first, but it wasn’t looking likely (Steam had a 50% off sale on it 2 weeks later, infact.) I thought the £30 or so I paid for it would be my biggest payout…

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