So — you are using distributed repositories (DRs) like Git or Hg. And you are thinking — why the heck use branching? Branching is great for local one-offs but I can copy/paste for that!” I admit that I have struggled with this questions as well — for instance thinking that SVN is just as […]
I found this entry in a Rational Process server . . . a team that has a process template and daily meeting notes for SCRUM. Is there any other needed proof that Agile has went off the deepend?
Tonight is the next installment of *hands on* for our local group. With brewskies and Crown Royal. There will be testing exercises and some TDD kata, and discussing the efficacy of TDD in coding with today’s modern methodologies. A lot of you have noted there has been a (predictable) backlash against TDD. My earliest […]
The title is the remainder for evaluating the numerical sequence 9876543210 as an Integer in Java. This number lies outsides the bounds of Integer.MAX_VALUE for Java; it’s an overflow error. 1286608618 is the overflow remainder for casting 9876543210 as an Integer in Java. I ran across this error in some code I was working on […]
See those smaller white lights on the sides of this motorcycle headlight? Those are called fog lights. Harley Davidson calls them passing lights. This is the front of a 2003 Harley Ultra. When I bought the thing I was under the presumption that there would be parts, forever, for any Harley model. The scale of […]
I just had a great discussion about Agile with one of my technical buddies. It seams this is popping up everywhere: Agile has become a management club. And by club I mean both an organization and a tool with which to bludgeon. These are some of the ideas that came out of our rather trite […]
Firefox. Dang it. Coding some javascript and waiting for a build, I was checking out my OK Cupid profile and wiped my Chick-Fil-A grease on my LA Clippers t-shirt when someone walked up and said – “OMG!!! You are using Firefox! What a moral outrage!” Crap. Can’t win here. Time for a new third browser. […]