Grok Programming

On the project that I’m working on we reached a point where we needed to integration test the major component that we are building. We already have unit tests with good code coverage for each of the individual pieces. Call me crazy but I wanted to ensure the whole work flow, well, worked. Correctly. You know, test the fact that all these little units happily working in unison would produce output that would make sure everyone on the project team stayed employed. I also wanted a way to run these test in a more or less automated fashion so developers wouldn’t have to remember to do it. To that end the project team started taking a look at Fit and FitNess to see if that would do what we wanted. Both are useless. Continue Reading »

One of my pet peeves lately is software developers who believe that simply reading a book makes them an expert at some aspect of delivering working applications. You know the type of person that has just finished Agile Web Development with Rails is now selling themselves as a “Rails expert”. They aren’t. Let’s take a look at what you really have to do to “know” anything.
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