Andrew Birkett’s blog

GeoURL is a cool idea. It is a directory of blogs, indexed by longitude/latitude. So, you can use it to find blogs from people who live in a certain city or country.

Hello, world! After chatting with Anthony last night, I decided that I would switch blog software to one which supports backtrack. Sites like www.livejournal.com make it easy to crosslink between blogs on the one site, but the internet is a big place so I want to use a system which allows references between blogs regardless of where they live.

Up until now, I have been using BlogMax but I have now started using Movable Type. Time to convert my old entries to the new site ..

It’s interesting to look at how various languages deal with passing arguments to functions. It’s a bread-and-butter part of programming, and if you come from a C background it’s surprising to realise that there’s better ways of doing it.
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The main purpose of this blog is to record my thoughts about programming. If you want a quick summary, it’d probably be “todays programming tools suck” and “we need to consider the whole kaboodle, not just languages”.

The whole what? Let me explain …
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