Many moons ago, I blogged about creating a DX Core plugin and admitted that one of my main motivations for doing this was to automate conversion of my code to conform to a standard that I didn’t particularly care for. One of the conversions I introduced, as explained in that post, is that I like…
Don’t try to follow the waterfall model. That’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no waterfall. Waterfall In Practice Today I often see people discuss, argue and debate the best approach or type of approach to software development. Most commonly, this involves a discussion of the merits of iterative and/or agile…
Last week, I had some specs to create a grid view in ASP that had normal column headers, as one might expect, and then also “super” column headers, where the columns were categorized. So, if, for instance, you had columns for “Dog”, “Cat”, and “Bird”, those three headers might have a “super-header” called “Pet”, in…
The Ben Franklin Effect Have you ever started looking for something, let’s say your wallet, and been fairly certain that it wasn’t in your house? You started looking in all of the most likely places and progressed with increasing glumness to less and less likely landing spots. Perhaps you eventually wound up in the crawl…
Recently, I posted my incredulity at the idea that someone would go to the effort of writing unit tests and not source control them as a matter of course. I find that claim as absurd today as I did then, but I did happen on an interesting edge case where I purposely discarded a unit…
