This Thomas C Greene guy at The Reg needs some adult supervision. Apparently he heard some signifyin’ from a guy named “Gweeds”, and he’s now an expert on hacker sellouts. Greene is immobilizedby slavish admirationin his first article, lapping at the feet of “Gweeds” like a dog. It is really shameful, and embarassing for The [...]
One of the pieces of software I’ve been involved with for the past months is now up as a demo on gotdotnet.com. The primary purpose of the tool is to be able to quickly detect node-level changes between versions of an XML document, and with enough granularity to support efficient patch and merge scenarios. The [...]
Carnage4Life pointed out to me that I was misrepresenting JUnit yesterday. I didn’t realize that you could enumerate method names in Java reflection, but apparently you can, and JUnit uses this functionality at least as well as NUnit. So if you were reading yesterday’s postand thinking “is he smoking crack?”, the answer is “none of [...]
I just started using NUnit(prompted by a recommendation from Tristan at least a year ago). NUnit is a framework for writing and running test cases during development. At Microsoft, like most other places writing software, developers create and run their own “unit tests” (or sometimes called DRT, or “developer-run tests” internally) at the same time [...]
Dave is noticing that politicians this year are attempting to tap into the collective discontent left behind by the bubble’s burst. I saw the article he links on the front page of Sunday’s New York Times, running right beside an article about candidates trying to smear one another with insinuations of corporate ties. The NYT [...]