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Monthly Archive January, 2004

I’ve had to close my comments

29 Jan 2004

A sign of the times, some a***hole of a comment spammer has discovered my site, so now I’ve had to close the comments section.

Email me if you want to respond and I’ll post it.

Sigh

News

Missing the point of Mocks?

23 Jan 2004

Triggered by Crazy Bob, Aslak and Simon Brown responded on whether it’s better to create your own mocks with the IDE or use one of the dynamic mock packages, such as JMock. I think Bob and Simon have missed something…

Test-Driven

Windows vs. Unix. Is that it?

18 Jan 2004

Joel Spolsky’s article on Biculturism suggests two things to me:

it more or less implies Windows on the desktop and Unix on the server, which is probably not how Microsoft sees the world but seems to be what many organisations do.
I may be a member of the last generation of programmers who got to work […]

Software culture

Sometimes you have to bend the rules

16 Jan 2004

In a comment on his posting Testing the Mock, Aslak Hellesoy points out that one of the solutions is less than perfect because it breaks encapsulation to allow testing. That’s true, but sometimes the right thing to do is bend the rules so you can test.

Test-Driven