Archive for November, 2006
“If I had to perform all future maintenance on this code, would I be happy?”
or
“Would Person X still be my friend if I left them to maintain this code?”
I’ve been thinking recently about motivating developers to write good (ie. maintainable) code.
We all know how easy it is to fire and forget… moving from [...]
I was in Mexico a couple weeks ago and I come back to this…
The first snow storm of the year happened yesterday and it was pretty rough by Victoria standards. The city was essentially shutdown today, no buses, no university, and no work for me.
I may live in Canada, but I don’t live in [...]
The past little while I’ve been planning a Hack Day for the company that I work for.
We were originally supposed to hold it a few months back but some project deadlines got in the way and it inevitably got delayed.
However, we’re in the home stretch and we’ll actually be holding the event tomorrow, November 24th [...]
I did a quick talk on CruiseControl at tonights Vancouver Island Java Users Group meeting.
The S5 presentation is available here. It was put together at the last minute so consider it a brief introduction.
Only in Victoria I say.
It’s not often that I find out something that’s happening locally from a site like Slashdot. But this article is saying that we’re getting urinals that rise automagically from the ground. Supposed to curb our rampant practice of peeing in public and for a mere pittance of $75,000. [...]
I must admit that I don’t read a lot of books, and even less books when those books are not overly technical in nature (I read > 100 feeds daily and tend to read most technical literature online).
My girlfriend on the other hand reads quite a bit and given that we were going to Mexico [...]
I’ve decided to take next week off and book a last minute trip to Puerto Vallarta.
Looking forward to it… Last year I made it down to the Mayan Riveria for a couple weeks and given that we’ve entered the rainy season here on the west coast, it’ll be nice to see some sun again.
I’m not [...]
I’ve been toying with the idea of switching themes for a little while now.
This weekend I bit the bullet and installed the 2813 theme (and upgraded WordPress along the way).
We’ll see how it goes, I may just end up switching back to Contempt if the minimalist look doesn’t grow on me.
Obviously software testing is a good idea. I’ve been a software developer long enough to realize the benefits of investing in up-front testing of the software. It’s baked into my development process and I wouldn’t commit code without at least thinking about the test scenarios, let alone consider writing them up as [unit|integration|regression]-tests.
I [...]
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Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill.
Signup for some random service on the internet
Receive a confirmation email with your account information
or
Forget a password for some random service ...
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Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...
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Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld.
It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...
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An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups.
Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...
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Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously).
Not quite sure how ...
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