I want to know what the buzz around Test-Driven Development is all about. The proponents make a good case for it. I’ve read about it a good bit but have never worked with anyone who practiced it. I also tend to be leery when I see people becoming religiously fanatical about anything, and some of [...]
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Pair Networks Database Backup Automation
I have a couple WordPress blogs, this being one of them, hosted at Pair Networks. I also have another non-blog site that uses a MySQL database. I have been doing backups of the databases manually through Pair’s Account Control Center (ACC) web interface on a somewhat regular basis, but it was bugging me that I [...]
CONDG Meeting – August 2009
I enjoyed the presentation by Bill Sempf at this month’s Central Ohio .NET Developers Group even if it was a little disorganized. I think Mr. Sempf and I share a certain scatterbrain quality though his achievements point to an ability to focus deeply when needed. He’s like smarter more extroverted version of the Bill writing [...]
PyOhio 2009
I don’t make it to many of the Central Ohio Linux User Group meetings but I happened to be at the one where Catherine Devlin stopped in to announce an upcoming Python conference in Ohio, strangely enough, named “PyOhio.” That was in 2008 and, though it sounded interesting, I couldn’t make it to the conference. [...]
Python Imaging Library – Introduction
Sometimes you run across an item in an article or blog post that you don’t take much notice of at the time but it makes just enough of an impression that you recall its existence later, though you may forget the source. I recall reading about working with image files in Python but I don’t [...]
CONDG Meeting – July 2009
Wow! I have been remiss as a blogger. No posts since April. I logged in and see there are five drafts I haven’t finished. I don’t know if this has anything to do with the fact that I started using Twitter in the meantime. Twitter: It’s like a sputtering of creative sparks, 140 character sparks [...]
COLARC Meeting – April 2009
Software Archeology was the topic of the presentation given by Michael Rozlog of Embarcadero Technologies at this month’s meeting of the Columbus Architecture Group. As a software developer, you sometimes inherit code that you had nothing to do with creating. This can happen for a variety of reasons but the end result is you have [...]
CONDG Meeting – March 2009
I knew this month’s meeting of the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group was going to be a break from the norm when I heard Alan Stevens jamming on his guitar as I approached the meeting room. He was belting out the words to REM’s End of the World as we Know It (and I feel [...]
ColARC Meeting – March 2009
I’ve heard the announcements for the meetings of the Columbus Architecture Group few times at the CONDG meetings and decided to check it out. They did a series of short presentations in the lightning talk (also known as blitz babble) format. Brian Disbrow talked about company strategy as it relates to the tensions and trade-offs [...]
CONDG Meeting – February 2009
This month’s meeting of the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group featured a presentation by Jon Kruger on unit testing and test-driven development in JavaScript. Links related to the presentation: QUnit – Jon used QUnit and JQuery in his demo. YUI Test PairProgrammingBot.com Hudson – Continuous Integration. Other links from the meeting: NPlus1.org Central Ohio Day [...]