So I never really post any code here. But why not? Who knows. Maybe I’ll start. Here’s a little script I wrote to drive iTunes in an alarm–clock–inspired fashion. It puts me to bed and wakes me up in the morning. Pretty good for 37 LOC huh?
This presentation from David is spectacular.
If you are a young person who insists on reading every bit of text you are faced with until its dire conclusion, you should know that I was very tempted to taper this WELCOME off into an endless stream of random text. But I know that’s what exactly what you want. And what I want. And we can’t have two more plump and satisfied people scrolling in the world. _why
It’s such a simple thing. But the amount of confidence that it gives you to work on those complex pieces of code is priceless. If you aren’t using unit testing for at least some of your code, you’re really doing yourself a disservice. If anything, it’ll help you sleep better at night.
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Nice talk on writing (mac) software for a living, from former OmniGroup employee and current CEO of Delicious Monster. I want audio.
Kent Beck
A real clear look at what TDD is, and how to go about using it in writing your own software.