... I prefer to count the number of rows before and after an operation instead of relying on the side effect of a change to hint that the right thing happened....
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 11, 2005 3:01 pm
... Ditto. I also have a /very/ strong aversion to having my development environment and live environments differ. I want to have the same tests run in the...
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Ed Grimm
ed@...
Feb 13, 2005 9:38 am
... Disclaimer: I code for an LDAP database, not a MySQL database. However, I think many principles still hold... Somehow, the natural thing to me would be to...
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Terrence Brannon
princepawn
Feb 15, 2005 10:29 pm
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.lang.functional as well. Perl is a programming language in which functions...
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bauhaus@...
princepawn
Feb 17, 2005 6:06 pm
QUOTE: Unit testing is like finding needles in a haystack. The haystack is your code's behavior. The needles are erroneous behavior. Traditional unit testing...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Feb 18, 2005 4:52 am
... It's grown to quite a thread. I just added a reply. It was interesting that no other replies included code. When talking about mini-languages, I find...
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Perrin Harkins
consumer
Feb 18, 2005 5:10 am
Hi Rob, I was talking to some of my co-workers the other day about managing changes to databases on a system that has a version in production already. There...
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Matthew Albright
MattAlbright
Feb 18, 2005 7:05 am
Hmmm, that sounds very similar to something I've done for awhile now (at 2 different jobs). I don't recall posting about it, but I (or one of my cow-orkers)...
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Johan Lindstrom
johan__l
Feb 18, 2005 9:51 am
... That would be very interesting! This is my take: In my experience, doing this automatically is kind of dangerous. We use a strikingly similar approcach...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 18, 2005 5:09 pm
... [snip] A "me too" from over here. Done similar on a couple of projects. We kept the schema change data outside the database - that way we could keep "build...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Feb 18, 2005 5:46 pm
Hi Perrin, It's good to hear from you. ... Probably. It's certainly something we do. I've included some thoughts below. ... This is like the code we have,...
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Johan Lindstrom
johan__l
Feb 18, 2005 6:14 pm
... This is just my experience at $work. But you should know that we're not very mature on process at all, and currently there is no way to guarantee that...
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Matthew Albright
MattAlbright
Feb 19, 2005 12:50 am
... Yeah, we're on postgresql. ... We are actually shipping a software product, and we make the new releases available to our customers, but they don't have to...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 19, 2005 5:16 pm
On 19 Feb 2005, at 00:50, Matthew Albright wrote: [snip] ... [snip] ... Amen. ... Just to clarify - I was talking about a /client/ DBA who tweaked the schema...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Feb 20, 2005 12:54 am
... Yikes. Remember there's a clear separation of concerns between the customer and the programmer. Be sure to yell at your customer. ;-) ... Yup. I wonder...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Feb 20, 2005 12:56 am
... Perhaps you should pay them to upgrade. :-) Yes, you've got a logistical problem, and it sounds like you have a good solution for it. ... Interesting you...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Feb 20, 2005 1:00 am
... Yes, we try our best to automate everything. If we think there is going to be multiple upgrades, one of which is critical, we'll organize these in...
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Ed Grimm
ed@...
Feb 20, 2005 9:26 pm
... I'd prefer something like the described Haskell module, which apparently creates unit tests. That is, I'd like the module to build a test file, which does...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 21, 2005 7:49 pm
On 20 Feb 2005, at 20:58, Ed Grimm wrote: [snip] ... [snip] I don't understand why generated unit tests would be any more useful than including the module with...
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glim@...
mindmeld20
Feb 23, 2005 4:55 am
YAPC::NA 2005 (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) has just released its call-for-papers; potential and aspiring speakers can submit a presentation...
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bauhaus@...
princepawn
Feb 25, 2005 10:56 pm
<quote src=http://www.extremeperl.org/bk/perl> CPAN ... The Perl community shares openly, because they're lazy, and want to solve problems once and only once. ...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Feb 26, 2005 6:29 am
... Difficult question. The folks who haven't worked at bivio, probably can't answer this question. Answers from bivions probably look like an excuse. Double...
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bauhaus@...
princepawn
Feb 26, 2005 5:13 pm
... Well, just one unless you want to create a shell script: If you used CPAN, you could have a Makefile.PL whose PREREQ_PM specified all of the modules Bivio...
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Feb 27, 2005 6:33 pm
... If this weren't an XP list, I wouldn't belabor the point... This is not a business need. This is a technical possibility. The world is full of technical...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Mar 2, 2005 12:17 pm
... A round of applause for dragging it on topic :-) Adrian...
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binotechhr
Mar 7, 2005 7:03 am
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Rob Nagler
robnagler
Mar 25, 2005 4:42 pm
We just got our copy of Higher Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus. I did a quick scan through, and it is extremely impressive. It's a monumental work. It...
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Chris Winters
winterschris
Mar 25, 2005 4:59 pm
... I haven't scanned through the whole thing yet but I wholeheartedly agree. I like his approach of just diving into the subject -- he doesn't tell you:...
