The core meaning of this quote is that code without unit tests is not as useful as code with unit tests. The speaker even goes so far as to say he won't use code without tests.
Understanding your own codeI recently ran into a statement that left me very perplexed. A programmer was proudly declaring that he can’t understand every piece of code he wrote a week ago. I honestly tried to figure out where the pride comes from, but I can’t.
[rshepherd]Courtesy of the is another fascinating postmortem, this time from the Game Developers Conference 2011.
Gmail and the GCBack in 2006 I was working on the Gmail team and we were undertaking a complete rewrite of the frontend code. Gmail’s original web client had strokes of genius in it but was getting really hard to maintain and was limiting new feature development.
Safari is released to the worldDuring the early development of Safari, I didn’t just worry about leaking our secret project through Apple’s IP address or our browser’s user agent string. It also concerned me that curious gawkers on the outside would notice who I was hiring at Apple.
Qualcomm's insane CES 2013 keynote in pictures and tweets2013 was the first time in many years that Microsoft didn't host the opening keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas. Instead, the show went to Qualcomm and its CEO, Dr. Paul Jacobs.
Why did Dijkstra Hate Basic?Dijkstra is an emminently quotable computer scientst, mostly for his famous lists of uncomfortable truths. Oft repeated is his rallying call against BASIC, most of the time without context–
My very own daily WTFPeople often hire me to grab their codebase by the horns and introduce a modicum of engineering standards. Eventually I get to implement new features, but they usually come at the cost of heavy refactoring before I can even get started.
Common Infrastructure Libraries for .NETThis project aims to provide lightweight 'infrastructure' libraries that can be used across multiple projects. The first of these libraries is a portable logging abstraction, Common.Logging. Other libraries are planned but there is not a defined roadmap at the moment.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.