November 2005 Entries
Okay, I wasn't going to blog this, but then I found myself browsing Joel Spolsky's site, and found he'd come across the same problem. Bizarrely, he chose to draw attention to it in the introduction to a book on tracking software quality issues, but I don't think that takes away from the universality of the experience. The problem is that virtually all restaurants are buggy. Not in the environmental health sense, I should point out - more in the sense programmers mean. They have niggly little glitches in their service, atmosphere, food... something they don't always get right. In his...
Jeremy Miller at CodeBetter (among many others) has pointed out that Microsoft's newly published guidelines for 'test driven development' are sadly misguided.
Microsoft seems to be trying to redefine TDD to match up with their
tools instead of creating tools that support TDD best practices.
[Via CodeBetter.Com]
Indeed, the guidelines have obviously been written by somebody told to explain how you can use the VSTS unit test generation tool to enable test driven development - a misguided effort as should be obvious from the fact that the tool is called a 'test generation' tool - i.e., it generates tests based on code you've already...
Dave's casting aspersions on my sense of direction:
James missed a great evening because he got lost. With a GPS and TomTom. Sad, very sad.
[Via writerus drivelus]
Now, it's true, I did try to get to the Coventry Flying Club on Monday night, and I did make the mistake of trusting my navigation to TomTom Ken, the Australian voice we settled on for our sat nav. Ken got off to a fine start, trying to send me off on numerous well-intentioned but ill-advised routes from Bromsgrove to Coventry Airport - initially determined that I should go through the centre of Coventry, he...
This is a bewildering time to be becoming a parent. We're moving into a new phase of our lives, where we'll need things we've never needed before, so naturally the commercial world is, charitably, doing its best to ease our transition into a new consumer demographic. It's really very generous of them. Personally, I find it interesting to see what the Baby Industrial Complex (thanks for that term to that man Greg Allen) thinks is the lifestyle to which modern parents - and particularly modern dads - should aspire.
Of course, young urbanites (as all people of our generation are trained...
It's a fair question. Last time I managed to blog anything, I was in America. Since I got back, for some reason I've not managed to put finger to keyboard and post. Easily rectified, as this post testifies. But doesn't really explain the absence. What have I been doing?
Well, as it happens, what with attending weddings, meeting up with old university friends and the like, I've found myself frequently being asked the question 'what've you been up to lately?', so I've obviously had the opportunity to practice the response at some length. Tragically, when I think about it, it turns...