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I’m not normally given to naivety and unrealistic bouts of optimism, but last week I discovered to my surprise that I genuinely expected some positive agreement on climate change from the Copenhagen summit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those campaigners on the TV, or that pour forth tweets, and I haven’t been glued to the news from Denmark, but at the end of the conference I have to admit to feeling a little deflated.
We evolved to be adaptable as a response to environmental uncertainty. Have we created a social structure that neutralises this attribute for avoiding extinction?
Very little in science and engineering is as precise as we’d like to believe, and climate change is no exception. What’s more, we have no right to expect that it’ll become more clear cut at any point in the near future, so we have to make our decisions based on what’s on offer now.
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is an adaptation of earlier Test Driven practices (TDD) that’s growing on me, but it’s raised an interesting problem: the order in which to describe desired behaviour so that it actually drives development.
The time had come to upgrade our MacBook Pros to Snow Leopard. Not wishing to break my partner’s laptop, I decided to see if the upgrade route would work using my machine as a testbed. Would I live to regret it…
A couple of months ago I came to the decision that my fragmented approach to web hosting needed a little reorganisation. I like to use UK hosts and I’m passionate about minimise my carbon footprint. On this basis Brightbox and Memset are both good choices, but with new projects on the horizon, the lure of cheaper US hosting is hard to resist. Can UK providers do even better?
I know that a good developer should choose the best tool for the job in hand, but their own productivity and inspiration must inform the decision in selecting the best tool.
Growth in both the volume and stability of carbon as a traded asset class is essential to tackling climate change and poverty, but can a successful global system be implemented in time?
It seems that our perception of individual rights can be misleading, we often feel our rights have been violated when something seems unfair, but these are not the same concept.
I wonder what type of national structure and system of government is best for managing extreme change? Climate and social changes are going to ask some serious questions during the coming decades.
I do my best to reduce my carbon footprint through changes to my lifestyle, but there’s only so far I can go. So I’ve been reviewing personal carbon offsetting schemes to see if they can take me closer to carbon neutrality.
Governments always promise to move away from the bad old days of boom and bust, but never seem to delivery. It made me wonder whether it’s actually a bad thing at all, or just systemic to our way of life.
Yesterday I read a few comments about global temperatures dropping since 2000, could it be true? Is Global Warming a false alarm? Do you know what global average temperature represents, or what the overall trend really looks like? It occurred to me that I didn’t, so I decided to take a look.
A hard drive failure is always a heart stopping moment, especially when it contains your partner’s huge photograph library and all those personal records.
What’s the difference between investing, trading, and gambling? If you think about it, it’s a very fine line, but on which side of the line are you?
I’ve been thinking about the key processes involved in design a website; I can feel another series coming on. The first step, and the one were it usually falls apart, is to determine what the site’s meant to do and how.
One thing I’ve learned is that crashes are an obvious result of excessive leverage: people borrowing money so that they can take foolish risks. Well the stock market and banking sector has seen things unwind, but it’s not finished yet.
I’ve got a local copy of the Subversion repository under Git, so I thought I should talk about my workflow.
To start this series about teaming Git with Subversion, I need to create a local copy of the Subversion Repository.
I’ve had time to try Git with my remote Subversion repositories, using the git svn commands, and I wouldn’t go back. To start this small series, I’ll try to explain the enthusiasm.
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