G'day:
Here's the second in my intended series covering unit testing and TDD and anything else that springs to mind. Earlier in the week I started the series intended to get straight into code, but my intended "intro paragraph" ended up being an entire article, which was then retitled "Unit Testing - initial rhetoric".
So I'm not looking at code today, instead I'm gonna look at why you oughtn't bother doing unit tests.
Huh? Yeah, that's an odd thing to suggest in a series about unit tests, innit? Well let me be abundantly clear now that I'm below the fold, and you're reading the article and not just reading the intro: there are no bloody reasons why you shouldn't unit test. And you're a muppet if you think there are. I should add that I'm not having a go at people who thusfar haven't been doing unit testing etc for whatever reason, but those people generally know they should have been doing it, but haven't for [some reason which they probably concede is invalid]. I'm only having a go at people who try to justify their position as being a valid one.
Showing posts with label Bruce Kirkpatrick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bruce Kirkpatrick. Show all posts
Saturday 26 October 2013
Thursday 18 July 2013
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G'day:
I'm a bit late with this as it happened a week or so ago, but I just noticed I've been prattling away on this blog for a year now.
Apropos of nothing, here's some mostly useless information about this blog.
To close, I'd like to say special thanks to a few people whose participation in this blog has been helpful, interesting or thought-provoking. In no particular order, and it's certainly not an exhaustive list:
And now on to year 2...
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Adam
I'm a bit late with this as it happened a week or so ago, but I just noticed I've been prattling away on this blog for a year now.
Apropos of nothing, here's some mostly useless information about this blog.
- I've "published" 322 articles; I've got 14 in progress (some of the "in progress" is just a title and an idea).
- That's an accumulation of approximately 350000 words (!!).
- I've had almost 2000 comments! Crikey, that comes as a surprise.
- According to Google Analytics (which I installed about a week after I started), I've had 25000 people visit the blog.
- My busiest day was Mon 8 April this year. That day I knocked out four articles, which helps:
- A reader asks me: "CF10 for a new start up?". Answer: no
- Moving House... Mango Blog? (note that I have not moved it yet... I'm still on Blogspot)
- Now with comments on the mobile version
- onApplicationStart() will run whilst onApplicationEnd() is still underway
- The most viewed article - by far - is the article my mate Chris wrote on his adventures getting Railo working on his Raspberry Pi! I'm not proud, so I've had a bit of a laugh with him about that. I should get him to write more stuff. The next four most popular were:
- However the most +1`ed article was one of my own: What do I want to see in ColdFusion 11?
- The most commented-on article (with 41 comments) is - surprisingly - the very non-controversial "Unexpectedly performance differences between listFind() and arrayFind() in ColdFusion"; second to that have 40 comments, and was "Which CFML-oriented blogs do you read?"
- In January this year (so after the first six months), I was averaging 94 unique visitors per day; Over the most recent six months, it's about 150 per day. So not a huge amount of traffic still, but at least it's something. And it's generally building week by week, so that's a positive sign.
To close, I'd like to say special thanks to a few people whose participation in this blog has been helpful, interesting or thought-provoking. In no particular order, and it's certainly not an exhaustive list:
- Chris Kobrzak
- Sean Corfield
- Andrew Myers
- Bruce Kirkpatrick
- Brad Wood
- Andrew Scott
- Adam Tuttle
- Ray Camden
- Gavin Pickin
- Jay Cunnington
- Simon Baynes
- Duncan Cumming
- Brian Sadler
And now on to year 2...
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Adam
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Saturday 4 May 2013
Code Review
G'day:
I became aware of Stack Exchange's Code Review website a few months back, but never really looked at it until today. I decided one way to get someone other than Bruce (no offence! ;-) to look at my PHP code would be to chuck it up there and see what happened. Well so far nothing has, but it's the weekend etc, so perhaps people have better things to do than review my code on the weekend. How this can be true I don't know, but the world is a funny place.
Anyway, they have a ColdFusion / CFML channel too, so it might be a place to chuck yer code up there to get reviewed.
I became aware of Stack Exchange's Code Review website a few months back, but never really looked at it until today. I decided one way to get someone other than Bruce (no offence! ;-) to look at my PHP code would be to chuck it up there and see what happened. Well so far nothing has, but it's the weekend etc, so perhaps people have better things to do than review my code on the weekend. How this can be true I don't know, but the world is a funny place.
Anyway, they have a ColdFusion / CFML channel too, so it might be a place to chuck yer code up there to get reviewed.
Tuesday 5 February 2013
Closure and bindings and that sort of bumpf
G'day:
I was gonna put this reply on the Railo mailing list where the question mark was placed in my head, but figured I've been a slack-arse over the last week or so, so will post it here instead.
BTW: sorry for being a slack-arse, but I've been sick for the last week (just the dregs of it left now), so my attention-span for looking at computer screens is at a minimum, and all of that is occupied by my work requirements. Outside of work I've been sleeping-off this 'flu, or watching DVDs (which equates to watching the first 15min of a DVD, then resuming with the "sleeping-off this 'flu"... I'm turning into my father and his amazing ability to be put to sleep by anything).
I was gonna put this reply on the Railo mailing list where the question mark was placed in my head, but figured I've been a slack-arse over the last week or so, so will post it here instead.
BTW: sorry for being a slack-arse, but I've been sick for the last week (just the dregs of it left now), so my attention-span for looking at computer screens is at a minimum, and all of that is occupied by my work requirements. Outside of work I've been sleeping-off this 'flu, or watching DVDs (which equates to watching the first 15min of a DVD, then resuming with the "sleeping-off this 'flu"... I'm turning into my father and his amazing ability to be put to sleep by anything).
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