Monthly Archives: November 2007

My Great Secret to Writing Unit Tests

Always write the trivial unit test. A lot of developers fall out of the habit of writing unit tests, and I definitely understand that pain. I can fall out of the habit, too, and there’s something oddly intimidating about looking at a class and creating a unit test for it. It’s not clear to me [...]

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Wiped Out “Cute + Funny == So Good It Hurts!” (No more LOLCats)

It was a stupid post, done in boredom, which just shared other people’s work. It ended up eating a non-negligible amounts of bandwidth: more than the rest of the blog put together, actually. And I doubt it really pulled in a whole lot of recurring readers — if I’m wrong, drop me a comment and [...]

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On Ubuntu, After Much Trial and Error

So, I was going to get a System76 laptop, when Alicia pointed out that I can get twice the computer for ~$300 less by buying a Toshiba A215-7437. I told her about my epic yet ultimately futile struggle with Linux laptops and laptop wireless cards, but her faith in the open source community would not [...]

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What are you trying to prove?

Reg Braithwaite been after me to stop going on about static typing and say something deep about programming. I’ve been trying, really I have. But then he has to go and post something like like this, which then forces me to stay up late and respond to him, as it’s obvious he hasn’t gotten what [...]

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New Music Podcast: Acapodcast

I just added The Acapodcast to my podcast page. I was turned onto that podcast by Coverville #373.

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