Archive for April, 2006

Pop Quiz Hot Shot!

Each of two developers can drink a six pack of Mountain Dew in 20 minutes. Together with a third developer, they finish the six pack of Mountain Dew in 6 minutes. In what time can the third developer drink the six pack of Mountain Dew alone? Pair Programming Presented from [...]

Chaismus for coders.

Unit tests make sure you you write the code right, Acceptance tests make sure write the right code. Robert Martin Found via Agile Testing

chiasmus (ky-AZ-mus) n . a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases. For more, go checkout the chaismus website.

Practical Common Lisp Book Available Online.

Just a FYI, Practical Common Lisp is available online. I’ve been wanting to own this book and ANSI Common LISP since I attempted to read/understand Paul Graham’s On Lisp. Anyone want to buy either of those for me or send me their copy they no longer use?

Basset hound reflections.

Nothing is more endearing than a hyper basset hound. Regex God Travis

I can’t say more…

Gastroenteritis, or “How I lost 4lbs in 24 hours and you can too!”

Gastroenteritis aka “Stomach Flu”, thank you for helping me lose 4lbs in 24 hours. Normally I like to sleep at night, but you reminded me that sleep is for the weak and I’ve been wasting too much of my life doing it.

It seems I could spend some time trying to gain back that 4lbs…

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