Once again I’m bringing you this code-cast from a Marriott, albeit a different one. In spite of a bizarre amount of noise over the course of the evening for a business hotel, I’ve managed to get at least passingly decent audio for this (and for some ongoing Pluralsight work as well). This is a pretty…
Prompted by comments from a few people, I’ve decided to see if I like using Trello for keeping track of the TODOs instead of Excel. Also, learning from past feedback, I’ve defaulted Trello to being really big when recording so everything is legible, and I copied everything over from Excel. Hopefully I like it as…
In this installment, I’m looking to start defining the concept of “blocking” on a chess board. So far, I’ve been defining piece moves in a vacuum — put a rook down in (1, 1) and the rook can go anywhere in column 1 or row 1. But, what about when there’s a pawn at (1,…
In the last bunch of installments of this series, I’ve implemented methods for pieces to determine where they can move on a board and/or done some refactoring. But I’ve ridden that train as far as I can, now having implemented all of the pieces, so it’s time to shake things up a bit. Another thing that…
This post started out as a response to a comment on this post, but it started to get rather long for that venue, so I’m making it its own post. The comment concerns my habit of pulling instantiation logic for the class under test into a common setup method executed by the test runner prior…
