NaNoWriMo 2007: Half-way

15Nov07

It’s the half-way point of the NaNoWriMo and I’m still at it1. Week one was fantastic with the over 11 thousand words falling into place in the first two session. The first day came in at 3500 words and the second at a little over 8000. After that things slowed down a [...]

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Technology Memory Lane

13Nov07

I found a great site the other day and it took me on a real stroll down memory lane. It’s a bit nerdy, and probably appeals to the OCD aspect of my personality1, but Walkman Central has a list of all the Walkmans that Sony have produced. The two that really struck a [...]

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Tumblr has Tumbled…

03Nov07

Well it looks like Tumblr has died for the moment. They did a big upgrade on November 1st but for some reason either completely failed to test it or there were some nasty bugs hiding in the long grass. Whichever it is the RSS import feature was broken, then sort of fixed, then [...]

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Retrofitting Unit Tests Part 4 – Complex Test, Complex Code

02Nov07

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Having introduced mock objects, even if you’ve managed to avoid the pitfalls described in the previous posts in this series, you can often end up with some pretty complex and ugly-looking unit tests. There might be a lot of mock objects doing very little or there may be a lot [...]

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