This is a guest post from Judge Maygarden: 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 led me to an interesting article. Jeff Patton makes…
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 project, but was concerned because 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 7:00am 3/…
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 something…
I read Jeff Atwood's book Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code 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: "...as far as the user is concerned, the UI is the application.…