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On Knightly Duty and Suffering

I've been reading " The story of King Arthur and His Knights " by Howard Pyle to my son in the evenings recently. It's filled with various stories of knightly prowess, victory and defeat, triumph and humiliation, etc. Overall, I'd...

Published Mon, Feb 25 2008 9:27 PM by chadmyers
I find your lack of tests disturbing.

Found this here: {|one, step, back|} and I had to cry chuckle.

Published Sun, Feb 24 2008 8:57 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: TDD, Principles
SQL is the assembly language of the modern world

This isn't a new idea, it's been mentioned before , so I'm not taking credit for it, but it's still worth pointing out... again... for the umpteenth time. So I'm gonna pick up the baton-of-flames and try the argument again: I really...

Published Thu, Feb 21 2008 7:55 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Misc, SQL is evil
Austin TDD CodingDojo Homework

A few folks have been working on some of the stories and code we were talking about at the Austin TDD CodingDojo earlier this month. Joe Ocampo , Ray Houston , and I have been discussing it and Joe even did a cool spike/prototype to get things moving...

Published Tue, Feb 19 2008 9:42 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: TDD, CodingDojo
The first 2 hours of TDD are the most painful

Quick Background I admit, I've had a lot of failures with TDD. Mostly they were solo projects and I didn't have the discipline and self control enough to stick with it. I ALWAYS regretted not sticking with it. However poorly I was doing it, it...

Published Tue, Feb 12 2008 10:08 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: TDD, Programming, CodingDojo
Guiding Principles 101

As a answer-in-part to my own Call To Blog More , I'd like to make an entry. I'd like to talk about some of the guiding principles of design we should all be thinking about and re-enforcing in each other. These principles require discipline and...

Published Tue, Feb 12 2008 9:06 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Principles
Don't take encryption and hashing lightly

A word to the wise for framework and product-shipping designers: Don't take encryption, signing, and hashing lightly. Also, choose your cryptographic algorithms well and even consider making the cryptographic algorithm choice a configurable item....

Published Tue, Feb 12 2008 2:15 PM by chadmyers
You need to blog. Now.

Seriously. No, I know. Stop it. Stop whining. Yes, they will care what you have to say. No, it hasn't all been said before. Yes, seriously. Do it. YOU, YES YOU! The most common excuse for not blogging I hear (including from myself) is "It's...

Published Sun, Feb 10 2008 11:14 PM by chadmyers
Austin TDD CodingDojo Complete

On Saturday morning, February 9th, 2008, on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field , 20+ geeks descended to explore what TDD was all about. Ok, it wasn't frozen, nor tundra, nor Lambeau Field, but it was Feb. 9th and we were all geeks and it was good...

Published Sun, Feb 10 2008 10:46 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: TDD, CodingDojo

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On Knightly Duty and Suffering

I find your lack of tests disturbing.

SQL is the assembly language of the modern world

Austin TDD CodingDojo Homework

The first 2 hours of TDD are the most painful

Guiding Principles 101

Don't take encryption and hashing lightly

You need to blog. Now.

Austin TDD CodingDojo Complete