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by ollysb 14y ago
I like the idea of creating actions from within your email client. Integration with some project management tools like pivotal or trello would really smooth off this part of my workflow.
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by ollysb 14y ago
There's a good reason that developers love git, it helps to organise code for _themselves_. Centralised VCSs are there to help you share your code with _other_ people. Here's some problems I encounter everyday that git solves and SVN for in
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by ollysb 14y ago
Of the banks in england Natwest/RBOS seem to be the most aggressive in terms of modernising and improving their services. It's a real shame they've had technical issues over the last week because I suspect it will make it infinitely more di
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NatWest and RBS customers react angrily to technical problems(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by ollysb 14y ago|0 comments
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Nationalisation: Uruguay's solution to its drug problem(independent.co.uk)
7 points by ollysb 14y ago|0 comments
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by ollysb 14y ago
The indicator controls are a good example of this. They used to mechanically click into one of 3 positions, indicate left, off and indicate right. This made it very easy to switch them off. Now when you want to manually switch off the indic
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by ollysb 14y ago
I seem to recall that he talks about step size. The technique you're referring to is called triangulation, where you use sets of inputs/outputs to progressively generalize the implementation. It's good to know how to work at this small "ste
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by ollysb 14y ago
I read a few TDD books before this one but this was the book that really got me to understand the difference between simply test-first and test-driven development. The worked example in the first section of the book really illustrates how t
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by ollysb 14y ago
This seems a bit leaky. You're exposing the caching mechanism in the method signature(yeah, ok, in practice it's unlikely to be a problem).
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by ollysb 14y ago
While it seems logical when you understand what's going on, from a practical point of view I can't see how this would ever be useful. The tradeoff appears to be that the functions are first class objects. I'm not sure what the benefit here
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by ollysb 14y ago
That seems like decidedly unexpected behaviour and makes default params far less useful.
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by ollysb 15y ago
I moved to Spain a couple of months ago and currently work for my company in London from a shared office in Granada. I may well be the perfect user of this plugin. I've already studied Michelle Thomas' course so I understand grammar etc. My
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by ollysb 15y ago
Depends what the upside was really. If they could continuously run my test suite in the background at near instant speeds then I'd jump onboard.
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by ollysb 15y ago
Do all your development in the cloud? Definitely needs some clarification.
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by ollysb 15y ago
Having spent too many hours in front of a computer every day I've just moved to Granada in Spain to redress the balance a bit. Working from home I'm now in front of the computer about 4-5 hours a day. The difference in daily output is negli
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by ollysb 15y ago
The question is what are you both going to find interesting? Smalltalk is what you're doing while you try to find something that you're both interested in.
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by ollysb 15y ago
Half the battle of writing software is crystallising what it should do, in detail. As you discover new edge cases and assimilate them into your code it's very easy to cling on to your initial vision for the architecture. When you return lat
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Crossrider - Build Cross Browser Extensions with jQuery(crossrider.com)
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by ollysb 15y ago
Kent Beck talks about this in episode 1 of http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-kbtdd/test-driven-developm... The example he works with is writing a driver for Tokyo Tyrant in java. He begins by writing a high level test of what he eventuall
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The Fat Trap(nytimes.com)
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by ollysb 15y ago
This site builds docs for projects based on their integration tests. I think it's a pretty good example of what you can achieve using BDD for documentation, https://www.relishapp.com/myronmarston/vcr
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by ollysb 15y ago
That's the difference between TDD and BDD, if you're practicing BDD then your tests will be documenting how to use your code, not how it's implementation works.
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by ollysb 15y ago
It probably depends how you approach the advice. If you follow it with a view to sparking new passions and making new connections with people then it could lead you to something of substance. It's very easy to fall into a rutted existence,
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by ollysb 15y ago
Looks very slick. Took a little while to understand that the buttons at the top all work via drag/drop. It looks like you can only add information in a single text box. I can see the appeal if you're just organising a single iteration but a
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by ollysb 15y ago
Free unlimited private repos for up to 5 users; with competition like that maybe we'll see github improve it's pricing.
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by ollysb 15y ago
Is there any reason why publications can't be publicly available before they are reviewed? The journals could still play the same role, highlighting the most significant publications. I'm not an academic so I'm not familiar with the feedbac
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by ollysb 15y ago
The greatest opportunity for netflix is to become the global leader in streaming films. They've been slow to expand in this regard. I've been waiting for netflix to hit the UK for a long time. By dropping DVDs they avoid any expectation of
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by ollysb 15y ago
This is a fantastic idea, it would allow the tech community to police patents itself. Perhaps a good way to streamline the process would be to simply mark a patent when prior art has been found and verified by the patent office. The more in
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by ollysb 15y ago
As a long time iPhone fan I can for the first time see myself considering an android phone. I trust google will do a far better job of delivering a quality product that will be properly supported throughout it's lifetime.
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by ollysb 15y ago
From the restlet home page "Do you want to blend your web services, web sites and web clients into unified web applications exposing and consuming RESTful web APIs?" The link I provided was to an example of using restlet on the client side

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