honest.knave

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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One of my favorite books about software development, The Pragmatic Programmer, is full of down-to-earth advice for developing quality software. The authors describe several principles and tools that can improve your productivity by orders of magnitude. You’ll see me frequently refer to a core concept of the book called the DRY principle: don’t [...]

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