Steve Freeman

If I owe anyone a response, please drop me a reminder since I’ve finally suffered a disk crash and, of course, my backups are a bit out of date. The horse having bolted, I’ve been rushing around buying Firewire disks and that sort of thing.

The thing that really took up time was the […]

I’ve had this one on the back burner for ages because I thought it was too obscure to post, but now Robert Chatley has written up a conversation we had when we bumped into each other at an orchestra rehearsal. Thanks Robert.

I was moaning (my core competence) about my sheet music which had been covered […]

For the last month or so, I’ve been teaching rather than working on a development team. I’m glad I did it, and now I’m glad that at least the lectures are over.

One surprise, though, was how nice it was to have control over my time again. I put in a lot of hours to […]

Jay Fields writes about using chaining for object initialisation.

One of the inspirations for the fluent interface style in jMock was a Smalltalk construct called cascade, which sends multiple message to the same object.

aThing one: ‘one’;
two: ‘two’;
other.

I just got fed up having to redeclare the same object

thing.setOne("one");
thing.setTwo("two);

Charles Petzold wrote

just the other day I caught myself wondering who will clean out my Inbox after I’m dead.

I turn off image lookup in my mail reader because I don’t want to give those spam b******s any more clues than I have to. I’m using the standard Mail.app that comes with OS/X.

Here’s the friendly text/plain message from Apple marketing:

You appear to be using an email application that won’t properly display the graphical (or […]