October 2007
12 posts
Why didn't you tell my that GDocs wasn't going to... →
Google Representative: “We have confirmed this bug. And you are right, it’s a bad one. Thank you very much for being the first person to report it. The fix has been committed and is currently working its way through the release cycle.”
Satisfaction is when everybody wins →
“We are not willing to accept the zero-sum game—in which success comes at someone else’s expense—as a given. At Satisfaction it’s only the zero-summers that lose, a category that includes spammers, scammers and other unscrupulous types.”
Mistaeks I Hav Made: The XP Day Review Process →
A great lesson in questioning conventions and the benefits of fast feedback.
svn-time-lapse-view →
Subversion tool for quickly viewing all revisions of a file. Makes me hanker after the ENVY version control system built into VisualAge. I wonder if it would be possible to bolt something onto subversion by parsing files and storing extra metadata.
Meme Agora: Mocking JRuby →
An example using Mocha with JRuby to mock Java. Followed by a couple of interesting comments by Nat Pryce (author of JMock).
Mock Throwable →
Braindead obituarists hoaxed by Wikipedia →
More lazy journalism: “Step forward BBC News, the Grauniad 2.0, the Independent, the Times, The Stage and Reuters - who all cut and pasted the phoney factoid from Wikipedia without a second thought.”
Art lovers fall into Tate's crack →
A Health & Safety nightmare?
MF Bliki: RefactoringMalapropism →
“If somebody talks about a system being broken for a couple of days while they are refactoring, you can be pretty sure they are not refactoring”. It seems to me that “agile” & “TDD” are both suffering a similar loss of precision.
Transport Direct - Britain's free online journey... →
Non-profit service funded by the UK Department for Transport. Seems to aggregate an impressive amount of data, but the user experience is a bit poor. I like the facility to compare the amount of CO2 generated by public transport & car journey.
Stubbing a module method and a module instance... →
Response to question on the Mocha mailing list.
The Costs and Benefits of Pair Programming →
“They found that for a development-time cost of about 15%, pair programming improves design quality, reduces defects, reduces staffing risk, enhances technical skills, improves team communications and is considered more enjoyable…”