John LambertFirst we show up, then we see what happens.(Untitled)- February 16, 2004 "Doesn't Homer work a standard eighteen-hour day ... But he does work every day, right" -- Manjula (making charles nelson reilly sound...)http://radio.weblogs.com/0106756/2004/02/15.html#a812 (Untitled)- February 13, 2004 "You can run, but you can't glide!" -- Homer to frightened city dwellers (but also me with respect to bugs)...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106756/2004/02/13.html#a809 (Untitled)- February 11, 2004 When I'm struggling with my test coding, it seems like three things happen: I listen to increasingly "harder" music: trance, funky breaks, dark breaks, drum & bass, hard drum & bass, etc. My variables tend to become repeated wordssyllables: string xmlxml, int sizesize, Message mmm, etc. My methods tend to have VeryLongNamesWithLotsOfDescription, etc.http://radio.weblogs.com/0106756/2004/02/11.html#a808 (Untitled)- February 11, 2004 Dwight: "I heard alcohol makes you stupid."Fry: "No, I'm... doesn't."Dwight: "Who's the target consumer"Professor: "There is no target consumer... only targets."-- Futuramahttp://radio.weblogs.com/0106756/2004/02/11.html#a807 (Untitled)- February 10, 2004 Summary of the Annoying PowerPoint Survey. "Lose the black background (and the white one) and talk to a designer." ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman's Weblog It seems like most of the decks I see used internally (and up the management hierarchy) are "plain" default design.pot black text + white background. When things start to go outside of the team (or public), then things start to look a little bit more colorful. Personally, I like "plain": if it's a choice between me finding bugs and me...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106756/2004/02/10.html#a806 (Untitled)- February 10, 2004 James Joyce: Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming Language. Scripting News Hilarious... "All whitespace is equivalent except in certain situations."http://radio.weblogs.com/0106756/2004/02/09.html#a805 (Untitled)- February 8, 2004 All pairs of parameters. Interesting note from Tim van Tongeren: Based on this information we can determine: Of the 383 medical devices recalled by the FDA between 1983 and 1997, 106 (27.6%) of the bugs could have been caught by testing all pairs of parameter settings. Exploration Through Example Note to self: if I have a medical device installed, review the test plan first.http://radio.weblogs.com/0106756/2004/02/08.html#a804 (Untitled)- February 8, 2004 They're remaking The Manchurian Candidate Jonathan Demme + Denzel Washington... that's good. But, no Frank Sinatra... that's bad.http://radio.weblogs.com/0106756/2004/02/07.html#a803 |