“The final magnification is e.214. Want some perspective? a magnification of e.12 would increase the size of a particle to the same as the earths orbit! e.21 would make a particle look the same size as the milky way and e.42 would be equal to the universe. This zoom smashes all of them all away. … Read more

I first saw this chart a few years ago and have since used it numerous times to explain why some software developers are brash and stupid, others are mediocre and paralysed, while the best are confident, fearless and effective. Every time I bring this chart up in conversation, I wish I had a copy to … Read more

SQLAutocode is a script which spits out reflection code for database tables. There’s also an interactive prompt.

“You have a production database you cannot break. You have 5 minutes downtime to modify the schema, update records, etc. You need to be able to back out the changes and bring the system back up if everything breaks. Migrate lets you do all of this, and provides a versioning system to ensure that such … Read more

Yet another crawler/indexer which opens up data to be consumed. “Re-launching in February 2010”, whatever that means.