Archive for December, 2006

On Craniometry

We were talking about our new company logo’d hats at work. You know, your typical conversation… Why shouldn’t you wear hats to work? Why don’t I and of course each person had to ramble about why they didn’t wear hats… and my favorite people, Dev1 and Dev2 said this:

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What Tarot Card are You? I am the Hierophant

Yup, I did one of those awesome online tests… What Tarot Card are You? Turns out I am the Hierophant.

The role of the hierophant in religion is to bring the congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy. The word comes from Ancient Greece, where it was constructed from the […]

Announcing the Vancouver PHP Conference

Shane Caraveo asked me to announce to Seattle PHP’ers that they are holding the Vancouver PHP conference February 12th and 13th, 2007.

Interested in speaking? You need to to send an abstract and bio to Shane Caraveo in the next 48 hours, so get on it!

More details can be found at http://vancouver.php.net/php_conference.

Modeling Test Heuristics with Mind Maps

Grig Gheorghiu linked to this awesome post by Jonathan Kohl on Modeling Test Heuristics.

I’ve stolen his his graphic in an attempt to get you to go check out more of his interesting posts.

Using a LCD? Make sure it’s configured correctly!

Jeff Atwood posted about LCD Progress today pointing out how to make sure you are setup for using your shiny new LCD monitor. He lists the following:

Always use the DVI port to connect your LCD. Set your monitor’s refresh rate to 60 Hertz.

I would like to […]

Lightbulbs

You don’t see a lotta people carrying lightbulbs around here. co-worker

What a day, what a day.

Liskov Substitution Principle and the Decorator Pattern

From A Learning Guide to Design Patterns this question is asked about the decorator:

In the Implementation section of the Decorator Pattern, the authors write: A decorator object’s interface must conform to the interface of the component it decorates. Now consider an object A, that is decorated with an object B. […]

Domain Driven Design Quickly available as a free download on InfoQ.com

Domain Driven Design Quickly available as a free download on InfoQ.com. Registration is required of course, but it’s probably worth while if you don’t already own Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Domain Driven Design is a vision and approach for dealing with highly complex domains that is based on […]

Exploratory Testing, notes and an awesome Google TechTalk video.

The other day during the Sprint Planning Meeting people asked why I wanted a task against a low risk area to perform manual testing. I should have called this exploratory testing. After the meeting I had to take some notes to make sure that I’d be able to give an explanation for the […]

In Windows can I mount a file system as a directory? Or, What is the Windows equivalent of Unix’s mount command?

Update: People thought the title was a bit confusing, I hope that the change has cleared that up a bit.

What does it mean to mount a file system? To gain access to files on another device, you must first inform the operating system where in the directory tree you […]