Category: Programming

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 [...]

Links For Motivated Programmers

August 7, 2008 15:15 | Programming | No comments

Aggregation Sites

Proggit – http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ – 20% or so of the articles are pertinent and interesting, 50% are about functional programming stuff and over my head
DZone – http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html – Programming links, some bias to web programming
Codebetter – http://codebetter.com/ – A .NET blogging network
Devlicio.us – http://devlicious.com/Default.aspx – Somehow different from codebetter, not sure how

Forums

CodeProject – http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/List.aspx [...]

Stephen Bohlen Is My Savior

June 30, 2008 02:41 | Programming | No comments

One of the tools that I’ve set out to learn in my quest to become a better developer is Alt.NET’s baby NHibernate.  Unfortunately, being my company’s sole developer, my manager has alotted me roughly “go fuck yourself” hours for learning this mountain of an API.  I’ve tried reading through articles on Codebetter and Codeproject, only [...]

Oooh! I Wrote Something for Upper Management

May 5, 2008 19:25 | Programming | 1 comment

Today I was asked to write up a short justification for a rewrite of a godawful piece of software that I have been complaining about to anyone who would listen.  Yay!  Inspired by essays I have been reading by Jim Shore I might have been a bit too agressive.  But here’s the final(?) version:
Proposal for a Rewrite of the {Program Name} Software
The purpose of software is to make our [...]

Let's try to start this nice and simple

May 3, 2008 03:25 | Music, Programming | No comments

So since I registered this blog name I have proven empirically that I am incapable of actually writing to it so I figure I’ll start simple – with a list.  And – because this is what i’ve been reading and thinking of a lot lately – its going to be programming related.  Weeee.   So here [...]