Posts in the Life Category at Dave Meehan, Page 20

22nd November, 201323rd November, 2013 Dave

Bilboa – Nice Chap, Shame About the Art

Life

A day out in Bilboa. We decided to leave the van in its beach side carpark in Plentzia and catch the metro into Bilboa. The

21st November, 201321st November, 2013 Dave

Bilbao, We’ll See You Tomorrow

Life

Last night turn out to be rougher than the last, and we were on dry land. Well, dryish. The sea was certainly looking pretty rough

20th November, 201321st November, 2013 Dave

Life on the Ocean Wave

Life

Well, we made it. A moderately eventful crossing. The channel crossing was a little choppy with not too much swell, but once we got around

19th November, 201319th November, 2013 Dave

Setting Sail for Foreign Lands

Life

We’ll, here we are again, waiting for a ferry to take us to faraway lands. This time, a 26 hour voyage to Santander in Northern

4th November, 2013 Dave

A Desire to Write

Life

A couple of months back I started a separate project called ‘[A Desire to Write](http://adesiretowrite.com)’. It was meant to be a way of dumping out

25th October, 201325th October, 2013 Dave

Over on inessential.com, Brent Simmons discusses brace style in Objective C. I’m glad he’s seeing the light. In 25 years of coding in C dialects, I’ve never understood why people think that omitting the brackets improves readability. Coding is not, generally, improved by brevity or obscurity. The purpose is to write code that is clear in its intent, both to the compiler, the author, and future maintainers. If you know a thing about visual design, then you know that white space is your friend, so there is no need to skimp on that either.