Posts Tagged ‘ Testing ’

The zen of backup theory

When stuck inside due to all the snow, there is no better time to consider the topic of backup. Seriously, backup is important and the issue is fascinating.  The area of backup brings together so many topics in computing. Think about it! To do backup successfully, you must deal with data transfer, data integrity validation, [ READ MORE ]

Getting somewhere with Scala

Ok, so when beginning with Scala, it was hard to figure certain things out. For example, what’s the best way to document my code? How should I go about testing my new programs? Which race in StarCraft best represents the ideals of Scala? Well, to prevent other people from getting stuck on these, I am [ READ MORE ]

The trouble with USE

Today, I was caught a little off-guard by a question regarding the USE directive in SQL. While, it stumped me, it did give me pause to think. First and foremost, it occurred to me that part of the reason that I was caught off-guard was because, in the past, I’ve been advised to stay away [ READ MORE ]

Languages, platforms, paradigms and speed

Ever since the latest round of Ruby benchmarks came out and everyone got all excited, I got to thinking about the overall discussion about languages and the interpreted vs. compiled debate. To be fair, there will always be those who take a specific side for some small-but-important-to-them reason yet this has not stopped so many [ READ MORE ]

JSLint: Oh, what a wonderful thing

Just discovered JSLint. It is very good, but it does hurt your feelings somewhat. I intend to use it heavily on my code from now on. Wish there was a stand-alone version, though. Still, it’s marvelous so use it often. [ READ MORE ]

Trouble testing timestamps

Since I’ve been encouraging myself to write more and better unit tests, I have encountered a troubling obstacle when writing tests to cover timestamp creation and updating. Let’s say I have a Record class which has a modification and creation timestamp. The ctime instance variable is created when a Record is instatiated and mtime is [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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