Published at: 09:10 pm - Sunday October 30 2011
When people present some topic, many try to cover the topic very thoroughly. Don’t do that. Except your trying to kill your audience be letting them sleep until they starve to death. A presentation shouldn’t try to explain an idea completely. The aim of a presentation is to make the audience curious. You can provide [...]
Published at: 04:10 pm - Sunday October 16 2011
Jeff Wofford singles out “getting stuck” as A Programmer’s Greatest Enemy. Stuck as getting stuck with a problem that you just can’t solve. This situation gets frustrating fast. Jeff even tells a story of a coworker getting stuck so bad that he got himself fired. I agree getting stuck is bad. Although I’d rephrase it: [...]
Published at: 09:10 pm - Sunday October 02 2011
I just love the assertion syntax of ScalaTest. It’s easy to read and easy to write and looks like this: 23 should be >= (12) Even if you know nothing about ScalaTest it should be easy to understand whats this assertion is about. But what when your assertions get more complex? Like this: new Frog().color.getGreen() [...]