Category: ALT.Net

Screencast: Keeping Features Out Your Way With Branching

June 4, 2009 19:12 | ALT.Net, Programming | No comments

Pop quiz:  What’s the software developer’s biggest enemy?  It’s not marketing.  It’s not those snot-nosed DBAs.  The rigid chair that will invariably give you arthritis?  Nah.  Your know-nothing boss?  Not even close.  No, the developer’s biggest enemy is the customer.
That’s right customers and their god d*mn feature requests and bug reports!  Life would be so [...]

Of Cavemen Jeff Atwood and SOLID

February 16, 2009 18:57 | ALT.Net, Programming | No comments

Jeff Jeff Jeff,
Reading your blog has always been a bit like programmer masturbation, it mostly serves to make the reader feel great about what an inquisitive and intellectual developer they are.  That’s ok though, it keeps people reading and just through the sheer volume and accessibility of your writing you’ve pounded into people’s skulls some [...]

Re: What is Unit Testing?

January 15, 2009 01:04 | ALT.Net, Programming | No comments

In a post last month Zachariah Young posts that 
… unit tests … verify that the business logic is correct.  I believe that for it to be unit testing it has to use a testing framework like nunit or junit.
I say thar be dragons!  Tying your understanding of unit testing to a specific tool allows you to neatly sidestep [...]