This is a guest post from Judge Maygarden [https://twitter.com/JudgeMaygarden]: > I've tried diving in to test-driven development (TDD) a few times over the years. For some reason, it's never really stuck with me. So, I went looking for literature critical of TDD. This…
Using actual files is not an ideal solution for unit testing. You should have some sort of interface that duplicates what's in a file. Unfortunately, the current solution I'm working on doesn't have an interface (yet!). I thought about storing the files in the…
I was working on a difficult problem last week at work. I had a list of times and I needed to find the overlapping periods (if any). Here's a simple example, if we have 3 periods of time: * 3/24/2013 5:00am - 3/24/2013 7:…
We are working with Amazon EC2 at work and a coworker wrote up a story to help explain EC2. Enjoy. > There once was a King named King ComputerCorp who wants to build a nice town for his people. So he set out to find other Kings who have done…
I read Jeff Atwood [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/]'s book Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code [http://amzn.com/B008HUMTO0] this past weekend and one of the sections deals with the importance of UI. The most notable quote for this portion of the book to me is: >…