Posted on Wed 24 February 2016 in Posts
Blogspot is old. Wordpress is the new sexy, time to migrate.
My old blog was at http://codependentcodr.blogspot.ca/ I'm now in the process of migrating stuff here on Wordpress.
(2018 edit: whelp, I never did migrate the old to Wordpress, and now I've migrated from Wordpress to self-hosted …
I recently listened to a recording of a webinar put on through the ACM titled "Agile Methods: Agile Methods: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly" where Bertrand Meyer (the Eiffel/Design by Contract person) gave their interpretation of the agile software movement, and how we may tweak agile thinking …
Posted on Tue 03 February 2015 in Posts • Tagged with bookreview, craftsmanship, quality, tdd
Author(s): Sandro Mancuso
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (Dec 14 2014)
Pages/Sections Read: All, cover to cover
Thumbs up/Thumbs down: Thumbs Down
Link(s): Amazon, Author's Twitter
This book frustrated me. I once had the fortune of seeing Sandro …
Posted on Mon 20 January 2014 in Posts • Tagged with bookreview, java
Authors: Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pages Read: all
Sections: all
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Link: Amazon
Java Puzzlers is not so much a book, but a collection of obscure corner cases in the Java programming language …
Posted on Mon 20 January 2014 in Posts • Tagged with bookreview, professionalism, quality
Authors: "Uncle" Bob Martin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pages Read: all
Sections: all
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Link: Amazon
This book is largely a follow-up to Martin's other very well known book Clean Code . Whereas …
Posted on Fri 01 November 2013 in Posts • Tagged with javaTipOfTheDay, testing, java
This looks more than a little cool for those of us (like me) who are pedantic about testing out
equals/hashcode/compareTo methods:
http://www.jqno.nl/equalsverifier/
(Note: this post originally appeared on my blogspot blog at: http://codependentcodr.blogspot.ca/2013/11/equalsverifier.html)
Posted on Fri 03 August 2012 in Posts • Tagged with git, nose, python, testing
How did I not ever discover git bisect before today? Git bisect allows you to identify a particular commit which
breaks a build, even after development has continued past that commit. So for example, say you:
Posted on Thu 07 June 2012 in Posts • Tagged with pythonTipOfTheDay, python
The other day I was adding the rich comparison methods (the ones for operator overloading) to a class I had defined. Like many Python programmers before me I wondered "why is it that if I define a method for equality, I still have to define a not-equal method?" and "if …
Posted on Sat 02 June 2012 in Posts • Tagged with polyglotconf, conferences, learning
This year I was fortunate to be allowed to attend the inaugural Polyglot UN-Conference. An UN-conference is a unique format that is rather well suited to coding topics whereby attendees suggest and facilitate fairly open forums on whatever they want to talk or hear about. It's a very cool idea …
Posted on Fri 18 May 2012 in Posts • Tagged with pythonTipOfTheDay, python, nose, metrics, quality, testing
I often stumble across and use a number of useful tools for creating Python code. Thought I'd barf out a blog post documenting a few of them so that my future self will be able to find this info again if need be. :)
(http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage …