Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
What I really wanted to say
August 11, 2008So my post today was meant to be about something else (that’s why I set up this account). Can’t remember what it should be yet…
Not lock-free coding…
Not goating… although the Clippit thing is genius.
Maybe it was meant to be on writing unit tests for database-dependent code. What’s the best-practice way to do things? Should you rely on there being a genuine DBMS that you can mess with, and run some scripts to set up and tear down your test dataset? Or should you try to do all your tests without any database at all, relying on your SQL to be valid / tested independently (surely there must be a better way than this)? How should you set up test data for anything but in-memory datasets (file-based, Web-based, etc)? I need to look into this.
I’m not sure that the unit-testing thing was the idea for the post now. Maybe I’ll remember tomorrow.
This blog is already becoming a to-do list, hopefully I’ll be able to answer some of these questions soon!
Content before design
August 11, 2008I nearly went straight for the “design” button as soon as I logged in here at WordPress for the first time, but managed to resist the temptation. Design is more fun than writing content (probably because you can’t do it as often, unless you’re a graphic designer or whatever) so it’s what I’d normally do. However, getting a design right without content is difficult, and you’d probably have to invent some content anyway if you wanted to prototype it properly (and who wants to see Lorem Ipsum again)?
I need to get used to this “link to everything” malarkey, it probably makes blog posts “better” in some way. There’s probably a way to quantitively measure that, actually: might be worth a little test at some point in the future.
I also need to devote more time for searching for good links – went for the good old Google Number One there. Great. Does anyone archive top ten Google results…? somebody must be doing that for a “popularity versus time” graph.
