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martinfowler

  1. Heading off to the #thoughtworks australia team hug. about 4 hours ago via Echofon
  2. I'll be at #thoughtworks geek night tonight to hear @olabini talk about his devious language experiments: http://bit.ly/cH5GUU 3:44 PM Sep 7th via Echofon
  3. @olabini yup, I'll there later shortly. Not sure when people start appearing there. 3:05 PM Sep 7th via Echofon in reply to olabini
  4. arrived safely to a beautiful morning in Sydney 2:49 PM Sep 7th via Echofon
  5. Starting the long grim trip to Australia. See you on Wednesday. 9:01 AM Sep 6th via Echofon
  6. @EdMcBane it's been down over the weekend. Hopefully they'll get it working soon. 11:53 AM Sep 5th via Echofon in reply to EdMcBane
  7. I knew it was only a matter of time before I started to use scss for my css. 12:43 PM Sep 4th via Echofon
  8. enjoying using emacs org-mode to keep track of todos. 3:34 PM Sep 3rd via Echofon
  9. Rain's starting from Hurricane Earl. Cindy is happy that the garden's getting some rain. (The storm is not looking too serious) 3:26 PM Sep 3rd via Echofon
  10. @fernandezpablo Using XML works wonderfully. XSLT not so much. 9:29 AM Sep 3rd via Echofon in reply to fernandezpablo
  11. @javame The xslt turns my source xml files into html. These days I do this with ruby, but these scripts handle the older files. 9:20 AM Sep 3rd via Echofon in reply to javame
  12. Now a bit of rehabbing I'm not looking forward: delving into some elderly xslt scripts. 9:14 AM Sep 3rd via Echofon
  13. @thecoda It is according to my mac's dictionary applet. Or more importantly, it is if people use it. 8:56 AM Sep 3rd via Echofon in reply to thecoda
  14. @davidbbitton I've not looked at wordpress properly. I doubt it would handle my rather quirky needs. 8:55 AM Sep 3rd via Echofon in reply to davidbbitton
  15. putting scaffolding up all over my website: http://martinfowler.com/snips/201009030955.html 8:40 AM Sep 3rd via Echofon
  16. @gregyoung If it's valid code in another programming language (eg C#) it's internal. 8:35 AM Sep 3rd via Echofon in reply to gregyoung
  17. @RonJeffries I still like it now as much as I did when I wrote http://martinfowler.com/bliki/iPad.html 3:43 AM Sep 2nd via Echofon in reply to RonJeffries
  18. @RoyOsherove No. there are commercial tools too - eg Intentional and ASP.NET MVC 1:55 PM Sep 1st via Echofon in reply to RoyOsherove
  19. @juristr I'm usually happy with following the whole person, but some people go off on twitter binges which I like to ignore 1:24 PM Sep 1st via Echofon in reply to juristr
  20. @RoyOsherove Things like Twist and Cucumber. Sadly the small size means we can't put in as explanation as we would like. 1:22 PM Sep 1st via Echofon in reply to RoyOsherove