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It seems to me that XP has enough enemies as it is without creating new ones ourselves. CMM is not the enemy. Ignorance, apathy, and hopelessness are.
– Kent Beck, XP mailing list 2004-11-23

Every company in the UK has to file two documents annually with the Registrar of Companies - their accounts, and a “shuttle return” listing the company’s address, directors, shareholders etc. The dates by which these must be filed are different for each company, but determined by law.
And of course, just like anything that’s determined by [...]

For the last few months I’ve been a slightly more than casual observer of the Maypole project. Although I don’t actually run any sites on Maypole, it’s based on rather a lot of my public code, and a lot of issues people raise on the mailing list aren’t really about Maypole, so much as Class::DBI [...]

UK TV has never sensibly shown The Practice. I first discovered it via an Ally McBeal cross-over episode. The case began in an episode of Ally McBeal, and then continued in an episode of The Practice. In the US I believe the second half ran immediately after the first half (albeit on a different network, [...]

I’ve been working with CSV files a lot recently, mostly as a way of building web based management information tools out of SAGE data.
But I’ve always really hated working with the interface to Text::CSV_XS. So I put together Text::CSV::Simple. You just point it at the file you want, and read out all the rows:
my $parser [...]

I’ve been asked which plugin I’m using to generate my “reading list” over on the sidebar. Like any true geek, of course, I actually wrote my own. Of course I’m generally into reuse where possible, but I wanted to learn how to write MT plugins, and it seemed like a good place to start. It [...]

Smylers has just pointed out to me that, for those of you reading this via Bloglines, all my URLs are screwy. Instead of saying things like http://www.kasei.com/, they’re just saying //www.kasei.com.
And although Mozilla, IE, and SharpReader Do The Right Thing here, Bloglines doesn’t. Of course, it’s hard to know what The Right Thing actually [...]

As well as posting about things I do, I’m also going to be posting about things I’ve learned.
I’ve ranted here before about the deficiencies in my education, and much as I keep promising myself that I’ll do an A-level in History or Literature or Art History or some such, I just never get around to [...]

It’s certainly been an eventful 6 months since I last posted.
Back in May we took over Ireland’s oldest ISP and have spent the last 6 months turning it around. They seemed to have an interesting business model whereby they would take all the revenue, give 50% of it to suppliers, 50% of it staff, and [...]