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Month: October 2005

Change your clocks, change you batteries

Posted on October 29, 2005 by Cory Foy

For those of you who in the U.S. who are changing your clocks back an hour tonight, and even for those of you who aren’t, be sure to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. If you don’t have a smoke detector, you can purchase them pretty cheaply at any store like…

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Converting Java to C#

Posted on October 18, 2005 by Cory Foy

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been helping some fine developers port over FIT from Java to C#. The SpreadsheetRunner is part of that, but there are other core ones that SpreadsheetRunner inherits from, namely CustomRunner and MakeParse. Since I could find the existing unit tests for those I gave it the ol’…

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TDDing an Excel Spreadsheet

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Cory Foy

Last week a renewed interest came up on the Fitnesse list about getting a .NET port running. Several people had started various bits, and all decided to try to come together to get it running. As part of that, I threw in my hat and got assigned to get FolderRunner (meaning SpreadsheetRunner) working. Basically this…

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XP and Risk Taking

Posted on October 10, 2005 by Cory Foy

On the XP list, Dominic Williams wrote in with: I don’t want to give the impression of dodging your questions, so I’ll contribute what I can below. However, are you or your boss assuming that if XP or Agile has been done before in a similar company, it is somehow less risky for you to…

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Moving

Posted on October 8, 2005 by Cory Foy

We’ve finally finished the move into our new offices at work. Friday was an absolute madhouse. We cut off the servers at noon, packed them up in my truck and carted them over to the new space while the movers ripped down all the cubes and loaded the boxes. The new server room is a…

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Serviceability

Posted on October 4, 2005 by Cory Foy

Recently, Ken Boucher brought up a term on the Maverick Software newsgroup: Serviceability. He defined it as such: What’s serviceable?Serviceable is the Holy Grail as found in Indiana Jones and theLast Crusade. It’s meatball surgery from M*A*S*H 4077. It’sa picnic table. It’s breakfast at 8pm in the kind of diner thatyou just can’t find anymore…

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