At the Hard-Things-To-Test meeting, Brian said that you should never test the disk. And with Java and C# interfaces for files/streams this is usually...
... Ed, Check out my blog today :) I'm planning on doing a lot of writing about things that are hard to test. This is the #1 thing I plan to look at and write...
The following xpstl poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Book club selection (vote for as many as you like) CHOICES AND RESULTS -...
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... Now that the results are in, I wonder when is the meeting where we're going to discuss the winning choice? Surely not during the Thanksgiving week? Paul...
OK, so you've figured out that our next meeting is the Monday of Thanksgiving week. Is this a problem for people? I'll be around -- will others? If not, to...
... I think I'm in town that week, but I'd have to check... ... Right. For that meeting, I'd be happy to either have a program, or just meet at a restaurant...
Hi, I am doing a research on pair programming. If you could please answer a few survey questions (related to pair programming) that will help me a lot. This is...
... Restaurant: Good idea, which I second. The Ruby guys in SF have it right. They have a Pizza and Beer SIG. No (or not much) tech talk, just a chance to get...
... OK, so the first pattern in the "Refactoring to Patterns" book is "Replace Constructors with Creation Methods", on page 57. That seems like a good place to...
... I'd be happy either discussing it in person at the meeting, taking a refactoring per month, or discussing it here on our list. Could we spend 1/2 hour on...
... Yes, of course! I am very interested in this topic, too. Lets discuss it at the meeting. So we should go ahead and get the book for ourselves then. I am...
And, to follow the ettique of the group... My name is Cory Foy. I currently am residing in Charlotte, NC and am anticipating a possible move to St. Louis in...
Hi All, This is slightly off-topic, and I apologize, but since none of the chambers of commerce up there seem to want to provide it, I'm hoping to get some...
... Harumph, harumph. It's nice to see that some people do :) ... Welcome to our group, Cory. I'm pretty sure we've exchanged email on one of the lists before,...
Cory: The all-purpose answer to these and most other questions is "It Depends." In particular it depends on whether you like urban or more suburban/rural...
I thought he might get a kick out of this From C# blogger Eric Maino: http://blogs.msdn.com/eric/archive/2005/11/04/489108.aspx "We have learned a lot from the...
In preparation for our November meeting, I'd like to discuss and finalize the agenda. As discussed in a previous email thread, we're going to have two parts to...
Hi, My name is James Carr (I go by JC though) and I currently work for a small programming firm in Quincy,IL, but hope to make a move to St.Louis sometime in...
... There is a PDF to our meeting location at our web site/wiki at http://www.xpstl.org. Basically, it is way out in St. Peters, which would be a hike for you,...
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