I am pretty picky about my keyboards. I use the Dvorak layout, which I’ve talked about before. I have spent a lot of money on hard-coded Dvorak keyboards. I’ve spent more on building my own Ergodox keyboard, plus burned many hours programming it with the layout I want. I have… Read more »
Recently at work, I was voluntold to update an application to include a feature needed to support a new business offering. It was a fairly simple app that ran as a Windows service and essentially managed other applications so that they could be treated as services without having to be… Read more »
I came across this post by Martin Fowler today, and it got me thinking. I’m pretty serious about decomposing methods for re-use, and I definitely prefer shorter methods, but I haven’t been quite as strict about it as what I’ve heard him and others say (e.g. if it doesn’t fit… Read more »
I’ve been following Bob Martin on Twitter for awhile now; I think he has a lot of good things to say about programming, especially things like Agile and Fitnesse, which I’m interested in. Doesn’t hurt that I tend to agree with a lot of his outlook in general. This post… Read more »
This is probably of limited interest, since test fixtures should be simple enough that you don’t need to debug them very often. Plus with Fit, you can edit tests to give yourself visibility to data so actually seeing things run shouldn’t be a primary issue. However, I’ve found this useful,… Read more »