What is a Bug?
A while back I wrote a little about bugs. I got a few questions and objections and the most common one goes something like...more.
Eric Smith
We are Principled: 6th Edition
We take responsibility for the correctness of our code by testing it thoroughly.
We do not tolerate preventable defects. —from the 8th Light...more.
Mind Your Own Business Rails
Putting extensive business logic in Rails controllers is bad and you should stop doing it.
I suppose I should demonstrate why that's true with...more.
That's Not Yours
My first exposure to mock objects was in C++, where they are practically indecipherable to the TDD newbie, so I didn't use them. That...more.
Pointers, Schmointers
I'm writing this blog from the train, my head hung in shame.
I'm taking a course in Game Optimization and today something...more.
Clean This Code
If you follow me on twitter @paytonrules you’ve probably seen me griping at various times about writing a testing framework for Objective-C.
...more.I have an apprentice
After 3 long years of searching, and several rejections (you know who you are), I finally have an apprentice. I’ve asked him to blog...more.
Qualifications of a Craftsman
The lovely wall you see before you is the wall of my son’s bedroom, freshly stripped of wallpaper. Note the beautiful drywall exposed in...more.
International Craftsman Swap Day 4
Oh how fast a week goes, especially when it's short. Did you know that Midsummer is arguably the biggest holiday in Sweden? And did...more.
International Craftsman Swap Day 3
After attending tonights got:ruby I became obsessed with and started installing rvm. It worked swimmingly.
I’m looking forward to getting my development...more.
International Craftsman Swap Day 2
Before I get into some of the details of day #2 at eLabs, let me dispell a few myths about Sweden that my American...more.
International Craftsman Swap Day 1
Today was day one of my Craftsmanswap with eLabs developer Anders Tornqvist, and so far they have treated me with the hospitality and graciousness...more.
TDD in education, they're doing it wrong
This blog post originally appeared on a blog I maintain for my current game development class. Generally speaking my posts over there are pretty...more.
Stubbing :new Considered Harmful
Hi my name is Eric, and I have made a mess. There I said it. I’m not proud of it, but I believe a...more.
Announcing chiPhone
It’s with great pleasure that I announce the creation of chiPhone, the Chicago iPhone developer’s group, with our first meeting on July 23rd at...more.
TDD and iPhone—NSTimer
TDD on the iPhone is a challenging experience, especially when you’ve been spoiled by Ruby like I have been, but it...more.
Dependency Inversion Principle and iPhone
While working on the slides for our upcoming talk on TDD for iPhone I asked Eric Meyer why we need the...more.
Selenium on Rails Released, Again
Quick announcement, Selenium on Rails has been released, now supporting Rails 2.2 and with the latest Selenium Core. Numerous bug fixes are in this...more.
When is a Mock not a Mock
A couple of weeks ago I had to add a feature to some code that was written almost two years ago. It was a...more.
Selenium on Rails released
Remember when I used to post here? Not that I’ve ever been prolific but there is a reason I haven’t posted in 53 days,...more.
Some Random RubyCocoa stuff
I went to WWDC last week 1, and while I was there I got a chance to talk to a couple of their...more.
Erlang and the OCP
OCP was defined in 1988 in Bertrand Meyer’s book “Object Oriented Software Construction” as follows: “Modules should be both open (for extension and adaptation)...more.
Promises Promises
I have three step-children and I rarely promise them anything. It’s not because I’m a horrible father, but because a promise is a fundamentally...more.
Chirb Presentation
I gave a Chirb presentation last night on RubyCocoa, which went reasonably well. I’ve presented the slide here. Please be aware that the slides...more.
Bowled Over by RubyCocoa
Last year I wrote a RubyCocoa tutorial that’s been aggregated in a few places and referenced a couple times. By my standards it was...more.
Lessons Of A Craftsman: Are You Test Driving, Or Just Writing Tests?
Recently I wrote the beginnings of a blackjack game in Java, and I found myself making a common error. The Java gameplay mechanic uses...more.
Want clean code? Stop using the editor.
Recently I was adding some accessors to a ruby class on the fly, and I kept getting confused by a certain code block.
...more.Test Driven Debugging
I hate debugging. Loathe it, despise it, pick your synonym and I’ll use it. Computer programming is building something out of nothing, making the...more.
A Snob
A little more than six years ago I started my first, and hopefully last, job at a massive cubicle farm. On my first day...more.
RubyCocoa Tutorial
Admit it, you’re new to Rails. You just got your new spiffy Rails job, and they gave you a Mac, formerly the computer of...more.
Something new, every day
Last December I went to to StarEast in Orlando because my fiancee is a tester and I well, I like sun. While there I...more.
Test Driving Module Methods—Part Two
Ever write an entire blog post, spend significant time on it, correct it, and eventually grow to love it, only to discover two months...more.
No Really, We Do that?
I’m a bit overdue on blogging, so in lieu of the normally brilliant and insightful commentary on the state of…er something…I usually put here...more.
Lost in Portland, and Thinking
Did I say I was tired yesterday? That wasn’t tired, this is tired. I’m currently training for the marathon, and today I was scheduled...more.
Day Three At RailsConf
Well it’s day three and I’m exhausted. As you may have noticed I posted at 3 AM last night, and getting up at 8...more.
Day Two At RailsConf
Hello again from RailsConf. I’ve gone through five presentations. I don’t have any enormous revelations, and no good pictures yet, but I do have...more.
Hello from RailsConf
Of course if you’re reading this you’re probably at RailsConf so hello from here. I’m right next to you actually, to your right. Yep...more.
Test Driving Module Methods
Recently I had the pleasure and frustration of working the net-sftp gem for Ruby. Pleasure because it’s a well written library, with an easy...more.
Test, Code, There Is No Step Three!
Occasionally even great developers fall into bad habits, and the rest of us do it more than occasionally. This is especially true when under...more.