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by ollysb 16y ago
It does seem very much like a kludge to get pseudo named parameters working. It would be great to see this dropped as a hash syntax and used for only named parameters in 2.0. The genie does seem to be out of the bottle though :(
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by ollysb 16y ago
To the end of clarifying your message - Given that people don't do, little bits of exercise throughout the day, I need some examples of exercises that I could do at my desk, or in the office kitchen or on an escalator. I simply couldn't vis
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by ollysb 16y ago
We start with a base image and then use puppet to manage anything that needs to be installed/setup.
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'm going to bite and just say YAGNI
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by ollysb 16y ago
After 6 years as a java dev Tapestry 5 was what made me give up on java and move to rails.
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by ollysb 16y ago
The point about the templates is that they're evaluated in the same context as the actions. Have a common context between the controller and the view makes a lot of sense to me. I don't see any reason why this is necessary though, you could
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by ollysb 16y ago
Here's my 2 cents (I'm a rails developer). The rails command exhibits 2 qualities which I value greatly, good encapsulation and a high signal to noise ratio. When I create a new project that is exactly what I'm concerned with, I have no int
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by ollysb 16y ago
You need to install the addon and plugin, instructions are at http://docs.heroku.com/logging
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by ollysb 16y ago
"It also includes a unique and slick keyboard that slides out from below for easy typing.” one of the things that apple has done consistently well is know what _not_ to include on their hardware.
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by ollysb 16y ago
I agree, the java community is generally extremely risk averse. This does however create a positive pressure towards such a fork. It seems very hypothetical at the moment but given that a fork were to receive backing from google I'm sure t
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by ollysb 16y ago
One of the stated benefits is that they don't need to carry explosives on board. A gas gun would not have this advantage.
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by ollysb 16y ago
In this case it would be a fork from the standard. Without allowing the TCK to be used against harmony the project must be considered a different standard that may will diverge in the future. Given the disappointment over closures and colle
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by ollysb 16y ago
A large part of the value of a hello world is to check that you've actually installed the language correctly and can compile/run code. Printing hello world is just the simplest way of proving it.
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by ollysb 16y ago
Perhaps you want one of these apple trackpads in your stocking http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC380LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg...
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by ollysb 16y ago
Now you're just showing off ;)
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by ollysb 16y ago
I think the source of confusion is that linking is closely associated with chains. When you add a link to a chain you always add the new link to the existing chain or ln -s new_link (onto) existing(chain) Obviously the target isn't a chain
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by ollysb 16y ago
I've found that when I'm in the backseat we can be most productive as a pair if I spend my time trying to keep the driver in flow. When I first tried pairing the programmer control freak in me made this very difficult. I was effectively try
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by ollysb 16y ago
In my experience that's a distinction iphone owners don't need to make.
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by ollysb 16y ago
You can use the universal "repeat last action" command: just hit . You can hit . as many times as you like and it will keep indenting.
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by ollysb 16y ago
Merging and rebasing both put you into a "no branch" when you have merge conflicts. I've introduced a lot of people to git and this is an area that has consistently confused people. For instance there's nothing to stop you doing a commit wh
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by ollysb 16y ago
TDD does not refer only to unit testing, it also includes the integration tests. Indeed, as you say, the value of unit tests is greatly diminished without integration tests. If you're working outside-in your workflow is - Create integration
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'm curious about what a team based workflow looks like without VCS, I'm really struggling to see how you could work without one. Can someone who's seen this enlighten me?
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by ollysb 16y ago
How could you be anywhere but at one end of the spectrum or the other with java? There's no REPL available so how else would you exercise code?
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by ollysb 16y ago
The difficulty I have here is that you associate unit testing with a large time cost. If you had good TDD knowledge then the length of time it takes to write a test is only slightly longer than it would take you to think about exactly what
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by ollysb 16y ago
I wouldn't want to maintain a large, complex system without a high coverage percentage. I'd have thought that would seriously hit your velocity.
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by ollysb 16y ago
It's effectively said that anyone that doesn't practice TDD isn't professional. Telling people they're unprofessional tends to piss them off :) edit: In response to child post - That was my interpretation of this "It will make our work so m
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by ollysb 16y ago
Kent Beck - "Before [market fit] you need the absolute lowest possible latency from idea through implementation to validation. ... Sometimes this means no automated tests." I think this is a great point and perhaps explains the low support
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by ollysb 16y ago
I should clarify what I mean by 100% test driven. By this I mean that no line of code was written without first having a test written for it. While you can't practically achieve 100% coverage of all code paths you can at least exercise all
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by ollysb 16y ago
As both a TDD and HN fan I'm really quite surprised to hear the anti TDD rhetoric here. To the detractors here are some honest questions: 1) How many projects have you worked on that were 100% test driven and written outside-in? 2) Do you h
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'm not sure why my comment has been downvoted, it answers the question and to my knowledge is accurate. Perhaps I can expand on something for you?

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