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Created on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 / Coding
Tags: c/c++, software development, unit testing
I've always followed the mantra that branch points in unit tests are bad practice, but I'd never tried to give specific reasons why it is bad practice. If you think about it, it is actually quite easy ... [ +++ ]
I've always followed the mantra that branch points in unit tests are bad practice, but I'd never tried to give specific reasons why it is bad practice. If you think about it, it is actually quite easy ... [ +++ ]
Created on Saturday, 17 November 2012 / Coding
Tags: software development
I've been looking at the IPC-2581A specification for representing PCB data. The XML format defines quite a few shapes, including octagons, but I was intrigued to find that octagons in IPC-2581A are defined ... [ +++ ]
I've been looking at the IPC-2581A specification for representing PCB data. The XML format defines quite a few shapes, including octagons, but I was intrigued to find that octagons in IPC-2581A are defined ... [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 10 May 2012 / Coding
Tags: software development, design pattern, unit testing, c/c++, xml
Note: Some improvements to this article are described in a later blog post. Read this one first, then head on over to the later blog post. Recently, I've been looking a parsing some XML documents using ... [ +++ ]
Note: Some improvements to this article are described in a later blog post. Read this one first, then head on over to the later blog post. Recently, I've been looking a parsing some XML documents using ... [ +++ ]
Created on Friday, 20 April 2012 / Coding
Tags: software development
Today was a humbling day at work. After 6 years and countless lines of code at National Instruments, for the first time, code I wrote caused a crash that a customer saw. It is of course not the first time ... [ +++ ]
Today was a humbling day at work. After 6 years and countless lines of code at National Instruments, for the first time, code I wrote caused a crash that a customer saw. It is of course not the first time ... [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 17 November 2011 / Business
Tags: review, software development
Lately, I've been doing a lot of reading on Agile, and specifically on Scrum. Admittedly, when I started reading, I was skeptical showing the typical inertia to change. I still have an objection to keeping ... [ +++ ]
Lately, I've been doing a lot of reading on Agile, and specifically on Scrum. Admittedly, when I started reading, I was skeptical showing the typical inertia to change. I still have an objection to keeping ... [ +++ ]
Created on Thursday, 29 April 2010 / Business
Tags: software development
I frequently think about quality and in my job that means bugs. Severity, visibility - simply bugs. I've mentioned before that I don't buy the prevailing wisdom that we can't fix everything. Today I spent ... [ +++ ]
I frequently think about quality and in my job that means bugs. Severity, visibility - simply bugs. I've mentioned before that I don't buy the prevailing wisdom that we can't fix everything. Today I spent ... [ +++ ]
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