Mobile broadband

I want a fully blown, always on, pay-per-month, unlimited usage mobile broadband.

I want a device, much like a mobile phone, that acts as a mobile broadband server and a mobile wifi router.

I want to sit in my car with this mobile device in my pocket and for my internet car-radio to serve music through it. I want to listen again to Zane Lowe on my way to work in the morning.

I want my in-car GPRS system to auto-detect the mobile internet server and to tell the world that I'm not moving very quickly, that I'm stuck in traffic. Or to divert me off the M25 when the GPRS' traffic information server tells me that there are plenty of others parked up on it.

I want to sit in the park, open my laptop and instantly be able to access the internet through this device.

And I want this for £15 a month without the worry of data limits.

Is all this too much to ask?

How is refactoring like throwing out the rubbish?

In these green days, you no longer just throw out your rubbish. You rinse, separate, sort and then throw.

A process, not dissimilar to refactoring.

Some code goes into your grey, household waste bin. This is the stuff that was written before the scope of the project was finalised. It has normally been written quickly, doesn't always fit the spec, and is often bug-ridden. It can't be recycled. Just bin it.

But hopefully most of your code will end up in the blue bin. This is the stuff that can be re-used - sometimes with no changes - but usually needing a bit of washing and sorting.

You can help the process by building modular code with good clean interfaces early on in development.

In this green age, filling your blue bin and recycling old code as much as possible is essential. And this can be helped by building modular code - with good, clean interfaces - early on in the development.