http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/176.html Data is ones and zeroes | Software is ones and zeroes and hard work. Tue, 22 May 2012 16:23:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/176.html#comment-204 Boliver Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:14:40 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/?p=176#comment-204 ERR T ERR T

]]> http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/176.html#comment-203 Jarno Virtanen Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:00:50 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/?p=176#comment-203 By the way, the commenting system does not allow one to give an URL in the URL field. It says that 'Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: '. I had to leave out the actual message, because it complains about even if it is in the comment content. It's not that I desperately wanted to add it, but that it's a bit silly to have a input field that you cannot use. :-) By the way, the commenting system does not allow one to give an URL in the URL field. It says that ‘Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: ‘. I had to leave out the actual message, because it complains about even if it is in the comment content. It’s not that I desperately wanted to add it, but that it’s a bit silly to have a input field that you cannot use.

]]> http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/176.html#comment-202 Jarno Virtanen Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:54:36 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/?p=176#comment-202 Steve McConnell has been preaching for years that one of the most common software engineering process is the code-and-fix paradigm, which, incidentally, is also the worst. Adding insult to injury, code-and-fix is also a really slow way to learn anything. One makes the same mistakes again and again and, slowly, learns from them. Some sort of feeback, be it defect analysis or, say, unit tests in the form of test-driven development, makes it much easier to learn from one's mistakes and actually become a better programmer. The hard part about unit tests is that you need to learn how to make good and effective test cases, which is far from trivial. Steve McConnell has been preaching for years that one of the most common software engineering process is the code-and-fix paradigm, which, incidentally, is also the worst. Adding insult to injury, code-and-fix is also a really slow way to learn anything. One makes the same mistakes again and again and, slowly, learns from them. Some sort of feeback, be it defect analysis or, say, unit tests in the form of test-driven development, makes it much easier to learn from one’s mistakes and actually become a better programmer. The hard part about unit tests is that you need to learn how to make good and effective test cases, which is far from trivial.

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