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Around the Net #23
Posted by benoit on 13 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Around the Net
Slow news today…Reaching back through time.
Testing
BJ Rollison answers the question: Is Testing responsible for Quality? The short answer: No!
BJ also has an older entry on the Future of Testing, and how testers seem to still be undervalued in the industry. One reader thinks this is a gross generalization.
Micahel has an interesting entry titled “Can Developers Test?” in which he explores dichotomy between Developer Tests (a la TDD) and the Tester Mindset. A developer’s test answers “How can I make my code work?”, while a good tester answers “How can I find all the places and scenarios where my developer’s code does not work?”. This rings very true to me, so does his assertion that switching back and forth between the two mindsets is extremely hard.
Around the Net #22
Posted by benoit on 12 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: .NET, Around the Net, career
Have you supported a good cause today?
.NET
Scott Guthrie talks about lambda expressions which make their debut in Orcas. Functional programming, here we come!
Career
Adam Goucher describes 3 types of environment he’s experienced at different companies. The environment can definitely be a factor when looking at an employer.
Community
Larry O’Brien has high praise for Acronis TrueImage. It just saved his bacon, or at least his computer. His diligence in doing daily backups also helped… I also like the way he partitions his drives: OS, bin (Program Files), data, media, and non-backup volatile. How does he get all his programs installed in their own partition? Sometimes, they just want to be in C:\Program Files…
Brad Abrams has a fun little video of the Visual Studio “Defy all Challenges”. You get to actually SEE what some of the big names look like.
Scott Hanselman has set a goal to raise $50,000 for Diabetes research. This is a disease that affects a large segment of the population. Diabetes is the 6th leading cause of death in the US. I made a contribution, as my way of giving back to Scott for the great content he has put out for the last 5 years. Since I only have about 0.25% of his readership, I would like to contribute that much to his cause. That’s $125. Can 5 generous readers contribute $25?
Around the Net #21
Posted by benoit on 11 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Around the Net
Times, they are a changin….
TDD
Jonathan Kohl (a test guru) describes his experience with TDD. It is quite an interesting read on the intersection of testing and design.
Community
Doug Gaff asks if the Embedded Industry is Dead? Reading about Doug’s start in the embedded world reminded me of my own rant about the death of electronics as a hobby. Which kids play with soldering irons nowadays?
Chris Sells has been interviewed by Jimmy of Washington Manor Middle School. Not your typical tech interview.
Micahel weighs in on automated testing approaches: automate to the hilt vs. automate nothing. The bottom line: both have drawbacks, we must find a happy medium.
Brian Fuller over at EE Times writes about David Knuth, an engineer that went through a period of unemployment during 2003. David wrote about his 10 months of unemployment. Really worth a read.
A new Techno Podcast: RunAs Radio with Greg Hughes and Richard Campbell. Something else to plop on my iPod. (via Scott Hanselman)
Scott Bellware (who has been prolific this week!) pontificates on the reasons why open source will fail to gain adoption in the Microsoft developer space.
Around the Net #20
Posted by benoit on 10 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: .NET, Around the Net, design
Back in the saddle after a long week-end.
Community
Scott Bellware has a great piece about Mark Miller and his commitment to customers. I’m a big fan of Mark Miller’s satire, and, like Scott, while not a customer, have always admired Developer Express, even though I use ReSharper, as it fits my style better.
Scott also wades into the Multiple vs. Wide Monitor debate. After this, I might just campaign for a 30″ wide monitor…
Scott Hanselman (it’s the all Scott edition tonight!) points out that UPSes are turning out to be a necessity with Windows Vista. I had a UPS for my TiVo, but the dang thing beeps louder than an alarm when power goes out…nothing like getting woken up at 2AM by the dang UPS…do they make them without the dang beeper?
Rob has a great entry on Attracting Software Developers that fit your company. Boy, if we could only manage to have ANY software developers to attract in Beaufort…Anybody want to move South to the coast?
Design
If you will be designing a framework, Brad Abrams has collected a few papers by Steven Clark about framework usability.
.NET
Adnan Masood has a great post on five easy steps to Log4Net. As a Log4Net occasional user, this little cheat sheet comes in handy! (Via The Daily Grind)
Around the Net #19
Posted by benoit on 06 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Around the Net
A short work-week..in theory
Agile
First VersionOne, now Lighthouse Pro is free. An on-line agile project management software. This is good news in general for small shops when software vendors start offering full featured project management software. Hopefully, the premium services will cover the cost of offering the free service. (via TestDriven.com)
Community
Larry O’Brien doesn’t think the Dice IPO is a good investment. Everybody loves to hate Dice & Monster. Why did I ever put a resume out there years ago?
Scott Bellware has been very prolific: Check out his entry on micro-incremental development. He also talks about soluble code - code which can be instantly understood. I believe Scott has just added new terms to the language of software development.
Scott Hanselman chimes in on URLs in blogs, should they be friendly? Does it matter?
Cory Foy has a great post talking about Tech Support being a profit center. The bottom line: It shouldn’t be!
PierG has a great anecdote about airport parking gone awry! It’s all about the software.