code – Ewan Spence

Trivial Posts #20: Cliffhangers, Knitting, And Error Trapping

Posted on October 20, 2015October 20, 2015 by Ewan Spence

What Have I Been Up To? Two appearances online from myself to highlight this week. The first is an appearance in the popular culture podcast ‘From The Sublime‘ where I talk about cliffhangers in modern television (with a specific focus on Doctor Who’. The second is a review of Microsoft Office 2016 on Forbes. Which Is The Better Star Wars Trailer? The nostalgia and new crew style that debuted this week for ‘The Force Awakens‘… or the genuine wish fulfilment of the PlayStation Christmas? Metafilter discusses the weaker trailer Indie Music And Knitting Finding a post on being self-employed and

Google’s problem with asking developers to code “Ice Cream” apps

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Ewan Spence

They’re the same developers they asked to code all of those wonderful “Honeycomb” apps.

When will Facebook do their compatibility break from MySQL?

Posted on July 8, 2011July 8, 2011 by Ewan Spence

Facebook has the problem faced by many start-ups, which is when to deal with the "we’re too big for MySQL" issue. Or how to deal with it and not cause major headaches. Essentially they’re going through something almost every OS platform has to deal with – when to do the low level compatibility break, and how many legacy emulation layers do you provide. Answers on a status update, please.