This is just a brief announcement that I’m probably not going to be posting this coming week — I forgot to mention it last week. Readers in the USA and perhaps others know that Thursday was US Independence Day, so between the long weekend for me and the fact that I’m currently out of town…
I anticipate this post being fairly controversial, though that’s not my intention. I imagine that if it wanders its way onto r/programming it will receive a lot of votes and zero points as supporters and detractors engage in a furious, evenly-matched arm-wrestling standoff with upvotes and downvotes. Or maybe three people will read this and…
I was at a users’ group recently here in Chicago, and there were two excellent presenters. There were two very well done presentations: one about Xamarin and one about the C# language entitled “Underestimated C# Language Features” by John Michael Hauck. This was a very polished and appealing talk in which he wove together some…
I think there’s a lot of value to the conservation angle of the green movement. In general, it’s a matter of efficiency–if you can heat/light/whatever your house with the same quality of life, using less energy and fewer resources, that’s a win for everyone. This applies to a whole lot of things beyond just eco-concerns,…
In the last post in this series, I covered what I think of as an important yet seldom discussed subject: how not to overwhelm yourself and get discouraged when you’re starting to unit test. In the post before that, I showed the basics of writing a unit test. But this leaves something of a gap….
