27
May
Brainout
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n. The feeling one has at the end of a day spent failing to get something to work
23
May
Two Questions, One Email
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Sometimes it’s necessary to ask someone several questions. It has been my experience that there is a better-than-even chance that an email containing more than one...
23
May
I Do Not Like FitLibrary
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It happens. You find a framework, it’s extremely promising. Then you hit a problem and it falls apart. FitLibrary – and by extension FitNesse, since...
09
May
Mocks and One Assertion Per Test
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I just wrote my first test with a Mockito mock, and I got confused for just a second writing it. First up is import syntax:...
08
May
Old Dogs and New Tricks
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Right now I’m playing around with Java and FitNesse and some related tools, and I’m starting to be comfortable with at least those first two,...
02
May
Fitnesse and Excel
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This took me waaaaay too long to find, but I think it will work. Let’s say you have an Excel sheet that you want to...
19
Apr
Goodbye and Good Luck
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Somewhere in the world right now someone is leaving a team that can’t afford to lose them. There are heavy sighs and sad goodbyes aplenty,...
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...