OddThinking

The Rational 1000 didn’t have a Save command. Well, it did, but it wasn’t called Save, and I didn’t really need it, and it didn’t really Save. Well I did need it once, but… well let me start at the beginning.

One of the more interesting concepts on a Rational 1000 was the way it pushed your code through stages on the way to compilation.

The Rational 1000 supplied a level of control over the clipboard, cursor position and windows layout that I still miss today.

Google have announced Google Pack.

I was expecting an initial list of software at least twice as long!

The hawk-eyed may notice some subtle changes to the SomethinkOdd theme.

The most astonishing part of the GUI greeted you before you had even logged on: the keyboard template attached to the keyboard.

Like an adept Tekken player, I could kick buggy code’s arse with kung fu debug combos that the code was never expecting.

Using a Rational 1000 was like immersive learning for Ada!

Julian tries not to get teary-eyed, as he gets nostalgic about a development environment?!

At its heart it’s a simple concept. Every type of sound that your computer makes is mapped onto a tree.

If you believe the hype, RSS (including Atom) feeds are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I think they are great, but they still have a lot to learn from sliced bread! RSS still needs the same sort of benefits of increased usability and standardisation that sliced bread brought to bread-making and toasting.