My Chase of Code Coverage Perhaps it’s because fall is upon us and this is the first year in a while that I haven’t been enrolled in a Master’s of CS program (I graduated in May), I’m feeling a little academic. As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been plowing through following TDD by…
In a previous post some time back, I had expressed some skepticism about TDD as a design practice. I talked about test-driven development and its relationship with prototyping and the “make one to throw away” concept. Since I’m not one ever to believe that I’ve arrived at the optimal solution, I’m doing another round of…
I was looking around for ideas about what to do for 404 redirect for the site. My personal favorite is the “You 404’d it–gnarly, dude” message, but copying that seemed in poor taste for some reason. As I was looking, I stumbled across a solution that didn’t occur to me. It’s simple, elegant, and easy…
In the comments of this post, Kym pointed out that I had been remiss in providing instructions, so I’ve now corrected that state of affairs. I’ve uploaded v1.1 to SourceForge, and the zip file includes an MSI installer as well as PDF and DOCX formats of instructions. As I alluded to in the comments of…
I haven’t had much opportunity to post lately, as I’ve been spending my free time working on some graphic design stuff for the site at large. Graphic design is not my forte, so playing with pixels and crop and MS Paint takes up more of my time than I would like. But I thought I’d…
