Jun 17
If, like me, you spend your days writing code using the Microsoft tool stack – Visual Studio, C#, .Net – then you’ll know how complex an issue performance tuning is. When you’re writing web services, or other things that take a long time, or that need to respond quickly when being used by what feels …
Nov 23
Cory Doctorow is a sci-fi author and commentator, who is usually to be found in his capacity as co-editor at boingboing. His most recent essay collection, Context covers a diverse set of topics, trying to reconcile the “freemium” nature of the Internet (something we’re strongly in favour of here at emudir) and the need for …
Dec 04
Chambers 21st Century Dictionary and Thesaurus are both available online, and searchable too.
Not enough? Well, they do have a daily Sudoku you can do, a monthly cryptic crossword and general knowledge crossword (requires Flash), and even a crossword and anagram solving Word Wizard.
Nov 26
This 1941 book, written by Mitchell Smith, is a fascinating read in its own right. Not only is it fun just to look at – most of the caricatures raise a smile in their own right, even if Kaiser Wilhelm II is a distant memory by now – there’s a wealth of practical information in here. Either as a historical curio, or for an artist looking to create some 1940s styling, this is an interesting tome.
Nov 04
Andrew Pitonyak is an OpenOffice expert, who has written extensively on macro programming for OpenOffice. The great joys of his document on macros – apart from its being free, of course – is that it includes many copy-and-paste ready examples that you can use to automate the tasks listed in the document. If, however, you …
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