There have been a number of incidents recently where a public website I've been using has gone wrong shown me a nice server provided stack trace on the screen. The most recent of these examples was the Cineworld website.
I've been lucky enough over the last couple of weeks to have early access to the twitter anywhere platform and with the eminent Chris Thorpe (@jaggeree) build a few prototype that we could use with twitter anywhere.
So as 2009 draws to a close, I look back over the year and consider what has happened. With this being the end of the decade for everyone but pedants (that will be another year yet), I've also thought about the previous decade.
I'm not a big fan of regular expressions. They can be powerful, but for anything remotely complicated they can be a nightmare to maintain and re-read. I had an idea recently for an easy to use chaining regular expression building library but I can't find anybody doing it, so I've created one myself.