Month: March 2013
28
Mar
Learning Exercise: Blog Comments
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This is the first blog I’ve had where I have a moderated comment queue, and it has immediately become apparent why this is so important....
21
Mar
Momentum and the Maintenance Programmer
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It’s probably a bad sign that the words “Hi Mike” at the top of an email cause me stress. The thing about being the maintenance...
19
Mar
FitNesse User Guide Uselessness
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Let’s say that you’re learning a new product, call it FitNesse just for argument’s sake, and you want to figure out how to use the...
19
Mar
Fiddles: Music to My Brain
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Can we just talk for a second about how awesome fiddle sites are? http://jsfiddle.net/ http://sqlfiddle.com/ These, to me, are transformative, and they seem to be...
19
Mar
FitSuites
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Just discovered Test Suites in fitnesse. In particular, Cross Reference Suites. Deeelish!
19
Mar
Time Sucks: Emotional Well-being and the Programmer at Work
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Yesterday was a hard day. I was in the middle of dealing with a difficult personal issue, and I came to work anyway. I am...
11
Mar
Infurination: Unwritten Rules
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I was messing around with FitNesse again today, and I decided to just get a simple test case running to see how well it worked....
07
Mar
The Vagaries of Source Control: VSS is a Bad Sign
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I jump into a new project and at last – AT LAST – they are giving me Visual Studio and a substantial body of code...
07
Mar
Java + Excel = ?
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It doesn’t take a lot of searching to find JExcelApi (aka JXL) and POI, but if you’re a programmer-in-the-middle like me you can still spend a lot of...
07
Mar
And Just to Round Out the Set
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Somehow I never encountered the fit website. Useful, particularly for the explanations of the roles/perspectives embodied in Fit.