Archive for December, 2006
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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December 24th, 2006 | Posted in Quotes, Wes's Boring Life | No Comments
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 […]
December 16th, 2006 | Posted in Wes's Boring Life | No Comments
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.
December 15th, 2006 | Posted in PHP, Wes's Boring Life | No Comments
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.
December 15th, 2006 | Posted in Testing, Wes's Boring Life | No Comments
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 […]
December 15th, 2006 | Posted in Work Environment | No Comments
You don’t see a lotta people carrying lightbulbs around here.
co-worker
What a day, what a day.
December 14th, 2006 | Posted in Quotes, Wes's Boring Life, Work | No Comments
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. […]
December 14th, 2006 | Posted in Code, Design Patterns | 1 Comment
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 […]
December 13th, 2006 | Posted in Code, Domain Driven Design | No Comments
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 […]
December 12th, 2006 | Posted in Agility, Scrum, Testing | 2 Comments
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 […]
December 11th, 2006 | Posted in Windows Unixism | 3 Comments