As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m currently slogging through the melancholic mire of testing .NET/C# code. In the process, I’ve been receiving exceptions which give an HRESULT code in hex (i.e. 8×80020005) and not much else. That got me to wondering what these HRESULTs are and how to … Continue reading
Glenn Vanderburg’s latest blog entry is a good one. Much of what he says can be applied to building teams for XP as well. XP is awesome and I really enjoyed my days on an XP team, but it takes discipline from each developer to make it work.
As Rich Main blogged in mid-October, Ward Cunningham recently left Microsoft for a job at the Eclipse Foundation. I found this especially fascinating considering that, after over 4 years of developing with Java, a job change recently required me to begin using C# for automated testing. The pain of doing … Continue reading
Let’s face it, mice are slow. Mice are very slow. And mice cause bad things to happen to your wrist. Keyboards, on the other hand, are fast. And you barely have to move to get things done on them. Discriminate against mice. Use AutoHotkey. AutoHotkey is a free utility which … Continue reading
Need a “cheat sheet” for Ruby? Check out Ruby QuickRef. An excellent place to go when you just can’t remember that funky little automatic variable containing the program args. (It’s $* by the way.)
The web is really going places: ham radio operators now have their own wiki. Whoda thunkit? HamWiki’s goal is to serve as a conduit for more experienced hams (Elmers) to share practical information (both technical and non-technical) with newbie operators. I’m tickled pink, purple, and green to have this resource … Continue reading
Wikibooks is an online repository of textbooks that can be accessed, copied, edited, and distributed for free. Co-founder Jimmy Wales says that his service aims to make it possible to get the textbooks needed to study any subject (including software development) online for free. Read more…
Yesterday I began getting irritated with my Instiki install on my PC at home. Don’t get me wrong, I like Instiki itself, but having to start it from the command line was getting annoying and I haven’t yet had time to figure out how to set it up as a … Continue reading
What is pair programming? PairProgramming.com defines it as: Two programmers working side-by-side, collaborating on the same design, algorithm, code or test. One programmer, the driver, has control of the keyboard/mouse and actively implements the program. The other programmer, the observer, continuously observes the work of the driver to identify tactical … Continue reading
Martin Fowler’s latest Bliki post is about the programmatic uses of closures. It’s an interesting read for its own sake, but I found his examples of one-line manipulations of Ruby collections even more useful.