Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Bill Gates
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This girl has got some serious skills, live looping Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz. A definite example of female multitasking in action, I can just about manage two things at once… on a good day!

Tumblr Hits 15 Billion Monthly Pageviews

Tumblr Hits 15 Billion Monthly Pageviews
After an explosive 2011, Tumblr is rolling full steam into the new year with impressive numbers that highlight the microblogging platform’s continue growth: 15 billion monthly pageviews and 120 million monthly unique visitors. Tumblr CEO David Karp revealed the statistics in Munich this week a…

22 Things You Can Do Today to Change Your Photography Forever

This is a great blog post by Jim Harmer that I found one evening using StumbleUpon. The tips here are something I’d love to try to work towards over the coming year, with the end result of [hopefully] becoming a better photographer from it.

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

C.A.R. Hoare
3 Notes
M5 J25 (Taunton) Northbound on Flickr. Today I’m sharing a much more recent photo, which at the time I wasn’t that fussed about but looking back I think it’s actually not bad. This is the first time I was out with a “proper” camera, my Canon 450D that I recently purchased. Taken from a small bridge over the South-bound carriageway I was here for about 20 minutes snapping on the way home from work. A good combination of low ISO and long shutter speed has left me with the motorway just lit enough to see the road markings and barriers, with a nice set of light trails over the top.

M5 J25 (Taunton) Northbound on Flickr.

Today I’m sharing a much more recent photo, which at the time I wasn’t that fussed about but looking back I think it’s actually not bad.

This is the first time I was out with a “proper” camera, my Canon 450D that I recently purchased. Taken from a small bridge over the South-bound carriageway I was here for about 20 minutes snapping on the way home from work.

A good combination of low ISO and long shutter speed has left me with the motorway just lit enough to see the road markings and barriers, with a nice set of light trails over the top.

Courgette and Aubergine Pasta

We are on a bit of a healthy eating spree at home, so here is a recipe for you to try that I make that’s healthy and tasty. For those who are following a diet plan such as Slimming World you’ll be happy to know it’s all “free food” as well!

Ingredients

1 Courgette Cubed
1 Aubergine Cubed
1 Large Onion Diced
1 x 400g tin Chopped Tomatoes
300g whole wheat penne pasta
1 tbsp Tomato Purée
1 tbsp Olive Oil (Slimming World Healthy Extra)
1 tsp Mixed Herbs
Salt & Pepper to season
60g grated mature cheddar cheese (Slimming World Healthy Extra)

5 mins prep
15 mins cooking
Serves 4

Method

Cook the pasta according to the instruction in a large saucepan. Meanwhile add the olive oil, onion, aubergine and courgette to a large lidded frying pan and cook on a medium-high heat for 3-4 minutes to soften. Remove the lid and continue to cook for a further 2 minutes. Add the tinned tomatoes, tomato purée, mixed herbs, salt and pepper and simmer for 9 minutes. Drain the pasta, add to the sauce and mix thoroughly. Serve and top with the grated cheese.

Tip: make this up in advance, eat some and freeze the rest. Reheat in the microwave when you need it!

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Martin Golding

5 steps to shooting with vintage lenses on your Canon digital SLR

This is the first article in a series I plan to write about digital photography with vintage lenses, so where better to start than a 5-step guide on how to get started?

Shortly after buying my Canon 450D I was keen to start expanding my lens collection, however my budget didn’t stretch to buying a bag full of prime lenses so I started looking in to the possibility of using older lenses. These older lenses were built way before the advent of auto-focus and apertures so there is a little bit more work involved but once you get the hang of them the quality of the results can be outstanding for the price.

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10 Elements of a Perfectly Optimized Page

Gareth Owen writes a great article that explains in simple terms exactly what you should be adding to your web pages to add quality and perk the interests of your favourite search engines at the same time.

I shall be saving this link to reference back to over the coming months for sure.

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