Don't intend to access this blog from my mobile or would probably have signed up to Twitter so decided to change the column widths to something more reasonable. Clicked on 'Customise' (My dictionary spells it Customize but what can you expect) Edit HTML. Copy the code for Minima, change some numbers, copy it back, click on Preview and . . . Perfect! Just what I wanted! Nearly fell off chair, but then: View Blog: nothing, nix, nil, a blank page.
Go back do it again, scratch head, get a cup of tea. Some time later . . . eventually get an error page: 'This blog does not have any posts. Please add at least one post in order to preview.' Well, they asked for one so here it is. Will it work now? Wouldn't put any money on it!
About Me
- Martin Humby
- Along with many other things, I have a long standing interest in computing, particularly computer languages, AI and some unusual kinds of statistical analysis and have written many applications in the Delphi programming language some of which I managed to get paid for writing. What one might call commercial development I suppose.
My great computing heroes for brilliant, simple and eminently useful ideas include Alan Turin – unorganized machines, Tony Hoare – quicksort, Edsger Dijkstra – solution of a problem in concurrent programming (several in fact) and David Parnas – information hiding. Of course, the contribution of these guys extends far beyond the specific examples given here. It is just that from a personal perspective these few ideas have had a particular impact.
Something I would like to do is write a study demonstrating how a few similarly simple ideas could be used in a programming language to ensure information hiding and ease problems with writing and maintaining ever more complex applications. Whether this happens remains to be seen. Currently this blog is about Java and for posting some stuff for Darrell Ince's Processing book.
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