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Wave to me
on Nov 3, 2009 in Programming I received a Google Wave invite this morning from a friend and I was all excited and ready to jump in. You know that feeling you get when you put on your favorite hat and your best shoes, grab a six pack and run into the party but nobody’s ther...
Hard to test things
on Oct 28, 2009 in Programming iPhone SDK iPhone TDD Objective C So I’d been thinking. Because I’m back into iPhone development and getting warmed up not only to ObjC issues and errors but also C++ oddities, I’m wondering how do you write tests for some of the more difficult things to capture? Fo...
Downgrade your iPhone DFU mode
on Oct 26, 2009 in Programming DFU Mode firmware hacks iPhone iPhone SDK My iPhone crapped out on me this weekend. I went to use it and the screen wouldn’t show at all. I loaded iTunes which was able to recognize it and offer to restore it to factory. Word of advice, iTunes is very sneaky! I didn’t realize tha...
Classic vs Mockist, TDD vs BDD
on Oct 21, 2009 in Programming Agile Behavior Driven Development Test Driven Development (TDD) I’ve been having constant issues with Behavior Driven Design using xUnit tools. For those that don’t know what behavior driven design means check out Dan North’s introduction. When writing tests you can choose from a number of appro...
How to go really really slow at programming
on Oct 19, 2009 in Programming Subversion This morning I spent 10 minutes answering “ok” to 65,536 dialogs in Finder. This is the direct result of used the latest thing. I don’t do like I used to. I used to install bleeding edge software and constantly run around with napki...
Let’s rewrite Hudson from scratch!
on Oct 16, 2009 in Programming build systems complexity Because I have nothing better to do with the eight hours I spend in my company’s office building I felt it would be a great idea to sit down in from of a vi prompt and rewrite the Hudson build server all over again! From scratch! With no syntax...