Do you love your users?
Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian newspaper, was recently asked by a UK home affairs committee investigating the Snowden leaks, “Do you love this country?” This is not a question I will...
View ArticleEclipse and Asynchronous Unit Testing
I’ve been retro-fitting hundreds of JUnit tests to Archi‘s code base. It’s a Zen meditation, as the process of devising the unit tests ensures that I re-engage with the code, clean things up, refactor...
View ArticleAsynchronous Unit Testing in Xcode 6
Last year I described a method to implement asynchronous unit testing in Xcode 5. Let’s remind ourselves of the problem with asynchronous unit testing. Many APIs on the iOS platform themselves are...
View ArticleNode
I’m looking for a new toy to play with. Something bold and new, some great new ‘THING’ to identify with. A change from the desktop world of Eclipse + Java. I guess it has to be web-based. I put...
View ArticleSoftware Craftsmanship
I was beginning to wonder if anyone cared about quality over price in anything any more. We see it everywhere – macdonalds, supermarkets. and in software. it seems like a race to the bottom in the X...
View ArticleMaking friends with the Command Line
Get to know your terminal. Linux users need not read this, this is for Mac users. Don’t use the default Basic Terminal. Make a nice terminal, in Prefs, make it something inviting, something you want to...
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