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Pre-Trip Status Update
So. Y'all must be asking yerselves, "I wonder what happened to Avish in the past six months or so?"
Well then, here's a short status update:
Shifra, the subject of my last post, is doing great, and is now accompanied by a brand new GPS navigator, which is the single most useful birthday present I ever got (thanks darling!).
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The Smell of a New Car
Those of you who don't follow me on twitter will hopefully be happy to learn that I finally got that new car I've been wanting to get ever since I wrecked my old one about six months ago (don't ask).
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Still Here
I'm still alive, for those of you who wondered. I'm reconsidering the purpose of this blog, which is a nice way of saying I ain't got nothing to blog about. Also, twitter, you know. But I'm definitely still alive. Doing science or whatever. -
Jeremy Miller's First Causes: Reversibility
Jeremy Miller has recently started a series of blog posts which he calls "first causes". The idea is to try to explain the fundamental rationale behind some codebetter practices. WHY is separation of concerns good? WHY do we want our code to be easily testable? etc ( Read more... ) -
My first true experience with (proper) unit tests
Now, I've preached the unit testing gospel in theory for a while now, but experiencing it in practice is a different matter entirely. Boo has automated tests, but they're really mostly integration tests and I always wrote them after finishing everything else. But today, in an underground coding session, I --
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DevTeach Recap: Agile is About Community
- "So, have you been to Jeremy's talk?"
- "Yeah, it was packed full. Again. Probably means he's a good speaker."
- "Well, have you noticed that all the other speakers come to his talks? That's a good sign too."
-- Lunch conversation at DevTeach 2007.
I think what I liked most about the sessions I took in DevTeach -- at least those in the Agile ( Read more... ) -
Off to DevTeach
Everything's (almost) done. Tomorrow I'll be on my way to DevTeach Vancouver. May this be the first in a series of many professional trips around the world ( Read more... ) -
Information R/evolution
Michael Wesch, the guy who made "The Machine Is Us/ing Us", has another short video about organizing information in the internet era.
So yes, it's a little too faltzy, but it stresses some points the importance of which we might have missed when we were too busy experiencing them in our daily life. Take, for example, the decline of categories in ( Read more... )
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