Dyslexia Awareness Week
Its “Dyslexia Awareness Week” here in the UK, and as a person that benefits from being a Dyslexic developer, I thought I should highlight the specific strengths to programmers of being dyslexic… All of the benefits are due to a neurological difference that presents as a larger right-hemisphere in the brain and many more neural […]
Head First Design Patterns
Over the last month I have been reading Head First Design Patterns. This an excellent book and I only wish that all tech books used some of the principals of learning that are contained in it. As Jeff Attwood has noted there are some problems with the content of this book, but the thing that […]
Am I a stoner hippy?
In my email signature, and in the title of my blog, I have the phrase “multi-dimensional free thinker”, and I was recently pulled up for it… How do you “know” you are a “free thinker”? You can’t prove that maaaan – at least not to me! –Mark Buchner Thanks Mark… but he has a point… […]
Search just got better: Part 2
After my post on the new Tafiti search engine a fellow by the name of Anselm pointed out Search Crystal, another visual search engine that produces some good result. I did not get he same Wow that I did from Tafiti, but the amount of information that is provided through the interface is extensive. You can change […]
Search just got better
I just had to pick my jaw up off the floor. What made me gawk! Tafiti that’s what. Tafiti is a new search front end from Microsoft, it is still in beta, but what a beta. I think you would need a reasonably good computer to run it, but from a dyslexic persons point of view […]
The cause of dyslexia
Rather than confuse the issue with my verbal dexterity (or excrement from my brain is more likely) I will quote from a source on the web: Dyslexia is an inherited condition. Researchers have determined that a gene on the short arm of chromosome #6 is responsible for Dyslexia. That gene is dominant, making Dyslexia highly […]
Becoming a better developer…
Steve Clements has tagged me (thanks Steve) about how to become a better developer, he thinks tagging me ‘would make an interesting read’..Hmm, no pressure: Actually study for my MCPD: Enterprise Applications Developer like I said I would. I posted earlier in the year that I was going to study for my MCPD: Enterprise Applications Developer and that […]
Why I think VB.NET is a better choice than C#
The reasons I think that VB.NET is better than C# are many, but I will try to put some of them down in a coherent manor unlike the usual C# developer that can only come up with “vb is a language for mediocre programmers…anyway looks ugly and smells ugly..” (Hmm, he must have thought long […]
What is dyslexia?
Dyslexia is many thing to many people, but it always involves reading. Some people are heavily dyslexic to the point where the are unable to function at all in normal schooling. Many people think of Dyslexia as a disability, but the only time I think of it that way is if I can get something: […]
How to become a Multi-Dimensional Free Thinker
All you have to do to become a multi-dimensional free thinker is to change the way you think of your dyslexia. The benefits of having dyslexia far outweigh the negatives: The concepts of multi-dimensional thinking are incredibly difficult to learn if you have not been born with the ability, and if you are dyslexic, you have. […]