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ArnoldC is a new language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s one-liners
And for the programming nerds out here, ArnoldC is a new language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s one-liners.
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Scaling Kim Kardashian’s back end
I would be the first to admit that I am not a close follower of popular culture but finally someone has found a way of making it interesting to geeks. Here is an article about serving up millions of images of Kim Kardashian’s naked bottom. So if you think varnish is hot this is for…
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Excel coding style guide
I am introducing some students to Excel and have produced this brief style guide to producing more readable code which I think gives you 80% of everything you need to know. The strategy is to use Excel’s built-in ability to name sets of cells. Please add your comments. All tabular data must be in a…
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How do I re-index Outlook
I am in the middle of moving from storing old emails in directories to storing them in a single directory called Reference and using Microsoft Outlook Categories to indicate the topic. After moving 3000 emails I found that nothing was returning in the search. I needed to force Outlook to re-index the emails. I found this…
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A simple investment strategy – your age in bonds
After many years of investing my pennies and trying to beat the market I realised that it was all a waste of time. The evidence is that almost zero fund managers achieve above average returns. Therefore the best approach is to simply buy index funds that follow market performance and to choose funds with very low…
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The Apprentice: Sugar is not Lean
I have just seen the “Business Plan” round of the The Apprentice 2014 (Guardian review). I have always hated this round because unlike the other task based rounds it has little relationship with the reality of business as I know it. Everyone knows that the a start-up business plan is a fallacy and even before Eric Reis…
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Don’t occidentally send porn to kids
Murphy’s law is that “everything that can go wrong will” but even he could not have expected a supplier to accidentally send pornographic DVD’s to school children instead of copies of their school play. It took me some time to find a management “moral” from this story but here it is, you always need a…
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“copy as path” on the right-click menu in Windows Explorer
How many thousands of time have I copied the directory of a file onto the clipboard and then manually typed in the file name. Amazingly if you simply “shift” + “right click” on a file in Windows Explorer then the option “Copy as path” appears. It’s that simple. If you need further guidance look here.…
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How to choose nice font pairings
http://www.sitepoint.com/3-principles-for-perfect-typeface-pairing/
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Don’t use WordPress post-formats
http://www.doitwithwp.com/saying-goodbye-post-formats/ is a great post and I quote from it liberally below. When you make a post WordPress allows you to define one of 9 post formats. This meta-data instructs the theme how to render your data. Unfortunately if you change your theme as is the norm for brochure and personal sites then this can…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 