All In? It seems to me that most or many treatises on best practices for software engineering in this day and age advocate for Test Driven Development (TDD). I have read about this methodology, both on blogs and in a book that I ordered from Amazon (Test Driven Development By Example). I have put it…
An Observation Today I attended a technical presentation on a domain-specific implementation of some software and a deployment process. The subject matter was relevant to my work, and I watched with interest. While the presentation was, to some degree, dominated by discussion from other attendees rather than pure explanation, I followed along as best I…
This is another one of those posts that’s more for my reference, but if anyone else finds it useful, so much the better… So, a few years ago, I bought some Belkin wireless USB dongles (F5D7050 is the chipset, I believe). I’ve gotten these working with a few different Linux distros, but the one I…
The Problem If you find yourself immersed in a code base that is sometimes or often fast and loose with APIs and internal contracts between components, you might get into the habit of writing a lot of defensive code. This applies to pretty much any programming language, but I’ll give examples here in C#, since…
Back Story Recently, I set up a media wiki installation. The surrounding requirements were such that I was forced to use a Windows 2003 server instead of Linux, which would have been my preference, but hey, when life gives you lemons, turn the lemon into a WAMP stack. And that’s just what I did. The…
