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Entries from May 2008

If it isn’t tested, it’s broken

May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

From the this-should-be-obvious-by-now dept.: I recently added an integration test suite to our codebase, which gives us the ability to write some tests that were impossible when we only had unit and system test suites. Once it was stable, I added it to our nightly build process, so it would be tested every [...]

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Tags: automation · testing

Software for fun and profit

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments

An interesting series of articles is developing at codingthewheel.com:

How I Built a Working Poker Bot, Part 1
How I Built a Working Online Poker Bot, Part 2: Interlude

It’s reminiscent of the days when IBM proved the power of computer software by facing off against chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov. Kind of exciting in that sense. [...]

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Tags: in the wild

2012 anyone?

May 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Some things have been weighing on me for a while. Chief among them, how out of balance my culture is, myself included, with the world around it. There are warning signs going off all around us, but I still feel like I’m going completely against the grain whenever I try to take heed.
“Whenever [...]

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Tags: consciousness