Retrofitting Unit Tests

18Oct07

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A while ago I promised to write a few articles on the art of test-driven development or TDD1. Rather than starting with TDD itself I wanted to start by talking about what happens when you try to write unit tests after you write your code.
This can happen for any number of [...]

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Unenterprising Ireland (correction!)

17Oct07

There’s something about my personal makeup that results in me feeling very stupid when I get something wrong. And it turns out that I did just that with yesterday’s posting about EI and Auctomatic.
Both Damien Mulley and Patrick Collison were good enough to comment on my post and correct me. You can read [...]

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Unenterprising Ireland

16Oct07

Niall Larkin blogged the other day about Paul Graham (he of Viaweb and Y Combinator fame) and his somewhat contentious remarks that if you’re serious about your startup you should move to Silicon Valley. You can read Paul Graham’s original post here and his follow-up here but essentially his point was that investors on the [...]

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Hell Hath No Fury… (follow-up)

15Oct07

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I didn’t get a chance to follow up on my previous posting about the kerfuffle caused by the Monster spamming incident a few weeks ago. Monster came back with an apology that defused the situation quite quickly. Apparently they were the actions of a “new hire” who didn’t understand [...]

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Hell Hath No Fury…

03Oct07

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The Irish blogosphere1 has been abuzz for the last couple of days with the latest example of how potentially powerful bloggers have become in Ireland, how careful – and informed – companies have to be to avoid running into serious PR trouble and how they should really learn to react in [...]

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