* considered harmful
* considered harmful. Computer scientists need to come up with more original titles.
Steve Yegge on dynamic languages
Steve Yegge has written a great transcript of a talk he gave at Stanford on dynamic languages. It focuses mainly on the perceived slowness and lack of tools available for dynamic languages, discussing whether this is actually true and what steps are currently being taken to improve dynamic languages. I have to admit that certain parts of it are a little over my head; I must buy the dragon book!
It links to a lot of papers that I’m going to have to put some time aside to look at.
If you’re at all interested in programming languages then I recommend giving it a read.
My life in six words
Ylva asked me to summarise my life in six words. I’ve put a lot of thought into this, probably more thought than she anticipated when she asked me! But here it goes:
Working, learning, trying to be better.
Close contenders included “something in my tea smells weird”, “going to the pub for lunch” and “thinking of six words is hard”.
What would your six words be?
What would you do in New York?
We’re going to New York in about four weeks. We have a few things planned, such as visiting the Nintendo World Store (it was pictured but Lindsey said I was a geek, so here is a more generic image instead 
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Do any of you have any suggestions for things that we can do on our visit?
Relaunch
Welcome to the new and improved EndOfLevelBoss!
Nine months ago I decided to stop blogging, thanks to a combination of frustrations with WordPress, the end of my yearly web-hosting contract, and my general lack of writing ability. In that time I’ve started reading a lot of excellent blogs, such as raganwald and Coding Horror, to name just a couple.
Thanks to some of these blogs, and the books their authors have recommended, I feel as though my passion for software has been rekindled, or perhaps, more accurately, it has been kindled; I feel more passionate about developing good, relevant software than I ever have, and it’s a great feeling.
It wasn’t just good blogs that persuaded me to relaunch this site, though, it was also the incessant nagging of many of my friends, most notably mope. Thanks dude (even if you don’t like this design as much as the previous one).
The theme of this design is “hand-drawn”. I tend to sketch out layouts and ideas before I implement them, and while sketching out my thoughts for a new design I realised that I spend most of my time scribbling in notebooks. It seemed to make sense to have a website that matched my scribblings!
It’s a work in progress, but let me know what you think of it. Even you, mope. 
Something is here
I’ve been a bit ill this week, which has given me some time to get my blog up and running. I’m using wordpress, which is an odd choice considering the reason i got frustrated with blogging was because of wordpress, but this is a new version and I can barely remember what my previous problems were so I might as well just get on with it :P