Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

“this year’s most important fashion statement – Duct Tape is my life“

Anyone know of a good diffing tool that’ll produce nice-ish html output? I’ve used BeyondCompare previously which is OK, but are there other similar tools? (this is intended to fit into a build farm system to create automated diffs of build logs, GUIs are certainly non-essential)

If you wanted to feed ducks in north cambridge, where would you go? Feeling somewhat guilty about generating hundreds of slices of stale bread for landfill and considering better uses for them – which I guess is really the problem I’m trying to solve.

Anyone got any recommendations for a bike shop in Cambridge? I’m after a decent quality entry level pushbike, plus lock and hat and lights, plus whatever else I need. Would probably prefer to go to a local independent shop rather than a big chain, but I’m not very bothered. Its been 10 years since I’ve […]

“…thinking, ‘Oh, my gosh, they’re talking about my burrito‘”

Thetford today. They seem to have obfuscated the town centre for some reason, I drove all the way through the place without seeing one sign to the centre. Eventually I followed something called “Services vehicles only” and found a car park. Its an odd little place, full of bad quality stone buildings dating from early […]

[x] None of the above

Theres still hope for us non-world-class programmers….indeed, this article (and presumably the book it is talking about too) reflects some of my views on development teams – that they should be structured to create an effective whole team, and that people fitting into the team is more important than each of the members being stars. […]

What am I bid for 40 Pounds Assorted Nail Clippers? …and I wonder if they’ll fly them over here…?

Anyone got any experience of this FPGA devkit, or anything like it? Worthwhile? Alternatives?