At my office each month, the developers—I’m one of them—participate in a developer-run presentation named code camp. The goal of these presentations is to bring the developers closer by having them share their recent experiences with code or code related subjects that they’re interested in.

Here’s a presentation that I created for one of these code camp sessions that I think you might enjoy. It’s about tie knots and it was inspired by the book The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie: The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao. You can download my presentation here.

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Finally, a brave soul has taken on the vital issue of SHOELACE SECURITY.

Tim wrote to us that he couldn’t ever get his leather shoelaces to stay tied, until he hit upon the solution: THE SECURE KNOT.

Thanks to the shoelace encyclopedia that is Ian’s Shoelace Site, Tim found a knot that lasts throughout the day, even on his tough-to-tie boat shoes and Bean boots.  You can find exhaustive instructions here - it seems the key is making two loops, like you were going to tie the 6-year-old way, but crossing both loops over, rather than just one.  We’re going to have to give it a try.

Kudos to TIM for the excellent suggestion, and kudos to IAN for his AMAZING SHOELACE WEBSITE.

Now: we know what you’re thinking.  “But Jesse and Adam, I like tying shoelaces at home, but I love tying shoelaces on the run!”

Don’t worry.  Ian the king of shoelaces has an iPhone app.

I gotta remember this.