Archive for March, 2007

F-22 Raptors, Trains and the problems of timezones and daylight savings.

I was testing something that dealt with timezones in the last month, so when I read about the F-22 Raptors having some problems with dates I wasn’t too surprised. It’s easy to get things mixed up regarding timezones and time in general and this latest timezone change is just going to make lots of [...]

Do it: use ridiculously long test method names

At work I’m probably known by a couple people for writing riciculously long test name, so this post by Patrick Lightbody made me smile.

Unfortunately, Dan’s examples of test methods were rather weak - often the agiledox crowd uses really simplistic examples. So I thought I’d give some examples of some of my methods [...]

Found via the Monologue:

Recently Carnegie Mellon announced that it was going to test out a gender neutral housing program next semester. It’s hard to see how this can be all that shocking (most university housing is co-ed by room). Of course, there’s always somebody with an ridiculous point of view: [...]