Been a busy holiday, but finally got a chance tonight to relax and get back into the game of playing with Eiffel. I think it will be fun to try out the bowling game in Eiffel using test driven design, but the Design By Contract features should make it a bit interesting. For now, here’s [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Taking Eiffel for a Spin
November 20th, 2006
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Lately I’ve been playing around with a multitude of languages, hoping to not only have yet more to add to my list of fluent languages to brag about, but to also gain further insight in other implementations and design from them. For this reason, I decided to play with Eiffel over the weekend.
User Unfriendly
November 19th, 2006
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Today I was fumbling around my insurance provider’s website hoping to make my bill payment online and get it set up automatically because despite constant calls changing my address on the policy and begging them to send me the bill, they still insist all this time to continue sending the bill to my parent’s address. [...]
Success
November 16th, 2006
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Today brought a great accomplishment for our team (at least, for me personally… it felt great). We had had a small project that acted like an undead monster. At the outset, it seemed simple… our customer just wasn’t satisfied with the acceptance tests we had (in their words, “something smells funny”). The project knocked around [...]
Custom Content Fitnesse Plugin
November 12th, 2006
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Ever found yourself wanting to add new javascript files to fitnesse for added functionality? Ever wanted to replace the default javascript files with your own, as well as add/or replace css files too? Sadly, you’ve probably discovered that you can’t, since the html is generated on page request, and the elements in the head are [...]
Huh? Where’s My Blog?
November 12th, 2006
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Something amusing I discovered this morning. I was a bit bored, so I decided to run my name through various search engines and see if I’ll show up one way or another. MSN Live Search, Yahoo, and Altavista all return a link to my blog as the first result for the search term “James Carr.” [...]
Fitnesse Date Plugin
November 11th, 2006
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A long time ago at work I ran into a small problem during some of our tests with fitnesse. We had a few fitnesse tests that tested time based rules, stuff like a 30 day rule that basically goes something like “if the file was received longer than 60 days ago, do not process it.” [...]
Fitnesse Commandline Fixture
November 11th, 2006
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Last month I spent quite a bit of time whipping up and perfecting my very own CommandLineFixture that allowed me to have a FIT table that interacted with the commandline. This was quite handy as the system under test was using a language there is no fitnesse implementation for, so I whipped up a commandline [...]
Sneak King?
November 11th, 2006
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Today I stumbled across a rather amusing commercial. Apparently Burger King is soon going to be selling an XBOX 360 game titled “Sneak King.” The object of the game is to sneak around and deliver “delicous food” from Burger King to unsuspecting people before they pass out from hunger. I can’t help but say the [...]
OOPSLA 2006: Design Fest Round 2
November 4th, 2006
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As I mentioned earlier, I had attended the day long DesignFest session at OOPSLA my first day there. Since the whole experience picqued my interest, I decided to go ahead and attend a second session on Tuesday afternoon in an effort to perhaps inject myself more, and give it another shot. I spotted Eric Evans [...]
