Managed World

Yup, yet another ridiculous ploy to take over the world by Google (when will we see Transit Live, Microsoft? (::end scarcasm::)). All I have to say is: COOL!!!! (and how convenient, the first release covers just the Portland, Oregon area which I happen to be from; Coincedence? I THINK NOT!).

http://www.google.com/transit

YAY!!!!!! I'm extremely excited right now. Tomorrow, I am getting my new sofa and chair delivered. Finally, a place for me to relax on and allow my IQ to drop to 12. Tomorrow, after I'm done working, I am planning on sitting on my new chair, stairing at the ceiling, and slobbering all evening long. YAY!

Who knows, maybe I'll pick up some Depends so I don't have to miss out on any relaxing bliss!!!

YIKES! I just realized how much this entire post really drove home the fact that I'm a lazy bastard. Oh well, I've already warned my wife that there is NOTHING getting done around the house this weekend. You know what I'm going to do ALL WEEKEND? NOTHING. Well, not nothing. I suppose if you got technical I'll be celebrating my severe case of Sloth. Oh yeah, chair + drink + video games = Jason Happy Happy Long Time.

FORMAT C:\ that is.

Yup, it's about that time. I fubared my computer a bit when I started doing OS development (I wasn't exactly smart about it when I first started). Ever since then, I get random restarts anywhere from every couple of hours to once every couple of days. I sent in a couple reports with Dr. Watson but nothing was identified as being the problem.

Oh well, at least I do backups. It's not such a pain to do this reformatting every once in a while. However, this time does have me thinking about perhaps going out and getting Ghost to make this process even easier.

So, I suppose I will see you all on the other side. Until then, my friends!!!

Well, it finally happened. After much noise and dismay for several months, the DVD drive in my XBox finally gave way. Luckily I had an extra XBox downstairs so I was able to transplant the working DVD drive into my main XBox. I guess this means that my extra XBox though is simply a box for transplant parts from now on.

Oh well, at least my XBox is up and running again. Of course, by transplanting the DVD drive I did totally bust up the warranty (if it was even under one after what I've done to it =P). Well, I'm just happy my XBox is back to good health.

This was just too good to possibly pass up. I was chatting with Chris Williams over messenger about his new endeavor to learn C#. And this is what he had to say:

Quite a way to compare two programming languages. Leave it to us Geeks to compare languages to girls =P.

If there is one thing that bothers me most about good terminology in computer programming, it is that if they are *too* good they become mere marketing buzz words. Key example: refactoring. I hear EVERYONE use this now even when it has nothing to do with what they are talking about. There are developers I know (thank goodness I don't work with any of them at Fios) where anytime they go in to legacy code to make a change, they refer to it as "refactoring" the code. Kuso! It just bugs the beejeebeez out of me.

Anyways, in that same vein, imagine my "surprise" (insert incredible amount of sarcasm and disdain here) when I found this post by Jim Shore in which he points to a MS guide on doing TDD with Team System. The problem? What they are describing, while having elements *similar* to TDD, is *NOT* TDD. I wouldn't usually mind this. But come on, call a spade a spade. If it's not TDD, don't use the term TDD simply because it's a "buzz word" of the day.

The more scarier possibility is that the author of the article (whoever it was) actually that it *was* TDD. There has been a lot of research and writings produced on the topic of TDD. How can it be so wrong?

Rather than me trying to add value to this whole debate (which I have none), I confer to the wisdom of some of the greats in this arena.

Jim Shore's Response

Ron Jeffries' Response

Uncle Bob's Response (aka Robert C Martin)

Have at it!!