It’s difficult to find out how much CO2 you produce for every unit of energy you use. Partly the reason is that it’s kinda tricky to say because it depends a lot on where your energy comes from, especially with electricity. When you look at the figures that people give you it is even trickier because there are a number of external factors. It’s commonly agreed that Hydro-electric power doesn’t produce CO2, well it doesn’t, but it does produce the much more greenhouse inducing methane from all the rotting vegetation from when the valley was flooded to make the dam. (more…)
Introduction
This is a talk/discussion I gave at CJUG May 10th 2006. These are effectively my talk notes. We did a recording (podcast) of the discussion which you can find with the slides at the cjug site. (direct links mp3 and pdf)
A discussion on when to take the plunge and do a “radical” Refactor, and how to choose when to deviate from a safe change. What tools can help you make serious changes without stopping everyone else on the team doing updates. How to manage team angst and the fear of change. How to smell your code (and prevent smelling mistakes)…. (more…)
I decided to change my webserver over to a newer machine and at the same time update everything… and I mean everything. So this is the new Thunderbox, looks the same as the old one without the content. I’ll move the old content across some time but I want to re-think the whole Thunderbox thing. It didn’t get used anywhere near enough, and wasn’t structured properly and needs a good theme…