Meandering Thoughts #15
I grew up in eastern Iowa obsessively listening to WLS-AM from Chicago to hear the rock-n-roll that wasn't played locally, with a line-up of legendary disc jockeys: Larry Lujack, Tommy…
Pull Requests and Tech Debt
https://www.flickr.com/photos/17963290@N00/6520777613 I recently created a small DSL that provided state-based object validation, which I required for implementing a new feature. Multiple engineers were impressed with its general usefulness and wanted…
School Fight Songs
I was a member of Iowa's Hawkeye Marching Band drumline in the mid-1980s. Great music, fun trips, hijinks, many cherished memories. 1986 Rose Bowl definitely a highlight (for which I…
Insensitive Clod
Unless you've been meditating at a silent retreat in the last week, you're likely aware of the school shootings in Perry, Iowa. Until my brother reminded me, I did not…
Windows IRL #2
From a Citibank branch near Union Square in New York City. Just another example showing that Windows insisting on being conspicuous....
Non-Functional Testing
Functional testing is fairly straight-forward and easy-to-understand: does your software behave as designed, or, perhaps, as your users expect? Examples of functional testing could be: Are the items selected correctly…