Monthly Archives: April 2005

First, an apology to Alan: Perryn’s right; by and large we agree. I should have phrased things better (again). That’s what I get for posting on Friday afternoon while trying to do three other things at the same time. I … Continue reading →

Alan says you don’t have to use mocks for testing. “No, no, no!” he says. “If you never tested any collaborations with live objects, your rapid feedback test suite had limited use.” That’s true; you don’t have to use mocks … Continue reading →

Thanks go to Ade for providing me with many fun links and this insightful comment: If you find yourself seeing duplicated signatures containing lots of arguments to constructors it usually indicates a missing abstraction which would bring together all those … Continue reading →

Followup to Darren’s post about Sam’s posts and my post. If you’re not interested in the detail, skip to the simple rules at the bottom. Darren says: The reason GameFactory needs all that stuff is because it is presumably going … Continue reading →

I read Sam’s post on Contextl IoC, questioning its benefits. I’ve been skirting around this kind of thing for a while. I like the idea of being able to package all the things which a class needs in a box … Continue reading →

My Windows partition on my PC fell over last night; not sure why. Might have been something I did whilst trying to mount it (read-only, always read-only) in Ubuntu. Or it could just be sulking because I didn’t put the … Continue reading →

My shuttle box for my new server arrived this morning, along with some wireless router stuff and my laptop mouse. Why is it that owning shiny new toys always makes me want to buy more shiny new toys? I have … Continue reading →

If I want to make a fire, I need a little more than just a spark. Something combustible is usually important, otherwise, when that spark happens, I won’t be in a position to build it into a fire. Opportunity’s the … Continue reading →

This weekend, I have been mostly trying to make Debian work on my PC. I should have realised that something was wrong when my boot sector virus scanner picked up LILO as an enemy (it seemed fine with GRUB before). … Continue reading →

My experiments with running Ubuntu Linux have mostly been successful. I’ve certainly learnt a lot about Linux. I love the Debian package management system, and both the Gnome and KDE desktops are great (though anyone thinking of installing KDE be … Continue reading →