Tag Archives: programmer

3A – Arrange, Act, Assert

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Bill Wake

Some unit tests are focused, other are like a run-on sentence. How can we create tests that are focused and communicate well? What's a good structure for a unit test? 3A: Arrange, Act, Assert We want to test the behavior … Continue reading →

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Review – Pragmatic Guide to Git (Swicegood)

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Bill Wake

Pragmatic Guide to Git, by Travis Swicegood. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2010.   I'm using git for the first time on a small project with a friend, and wanted a quick focused handbook to help with that. This book fills that bill. … Continue reading →

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Review – Beginning iPhone 3 Development

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Bill Wake

Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche. Apress 2009. I'm a former NeXT programmer who hasn't programmed the Mac since before Apple pulled in the NeXT development kit. The iPhone environment looks very … Continue reading →

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Tests from a Hat

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Bill Wake

How does the order of tests affect the design of software? A game to explore that idea. Continue reading →

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Review – Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Bill Wake

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests, by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce, ISBN 0-321-50362-7   Freeman and Pryce explain Test-Driven Development through an extended example. (They have a somewhat different perspective than I do, with much heavier use of mock objects. … Continue reading →

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Review – Structured Design

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Bill Wake

Structured Design. Edward Yourdon and Larry L. Constantine. Prentice-Hall, 1979. This was one of the early structured "standard works" that I've only just gotten to for the first time. I'd learned things like coupling and cohesion, afferent and efferent flows, … Continue reading →

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Refactoring in Ruby – InformIT Interview

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Bill Wake

Interview with Bill Wake and Kevin Rutherford, the authors of Refactoring in Ruby. Continue reading →

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Review – Exploring Requirements

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Bill Wake

Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design, Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg. 1989, Dorset House.This book is an exploration not just of gathering requirements, including the challenges of ambiguity. The authors describe how to clarify expectations by using functions, attributes, constraints, … Continue reading →

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Programming Language Puzzle

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Bill Wake

A word-stack puzzle on programming languages. Continue reading →

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Review – Clean Code

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Bill Wake

Clean Code, Bob Martin, Prentice-Hall, 2008. Bob Martin tackles the challenges of making code sparkling clean. He provides numerous guidelines, and demonstrates their utility in action. I particularly appreciated some of the longer examples where he really works them over. … Continue reading →

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Review – Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Vol. 4: Data Structuring

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Bill Wake

Current Trends in Programming Methodology, Volume 4: Data Structuring, Raymond T. Yeh, editor. Prentice-Hall, 1978. In parallel with "structured programming," (which often focused on code structure), there was more esoteric work done on "structured data." A lot of this found … Continue reading →

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Sudoku Solver

Posted on July 10, 2006 by Bill Wake

Sudoku is a fairly well-known type of puzzle. Solving it turns out to be easier than I expected, but a somewhat odd example of test-driven development. Continue reading →

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Design Patterns in Java – Sample Chapter – Adapter

Posted on July 2, 2006 by Bill Wake

Sample chapter – Adapter. Continue reading →

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Review – Agile Web Development with Rails

Posted on May 13, 2006 by Bill Wake

Agile Web Development with Rails. Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, et al. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005. Ruby on Rails is a framework for developing web sites. This book explains it well. It starts with a decent-sized online store as a running demo … Continue reading →

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Review – Design Patterns in Java

Posted on May 13, 2006 by Bill Wake

Design Patterns in Java. Steve Metsker and William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2006. I won’t review my own book, but I will summarize: This is a workbook-style book, updating Steve’s earlier Design Patterns Java Workbook and Design Patterns in C#. It covers the same 23 … Continue reading →

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