Kerry Buckley

What’s the simplest thing that could possibly go wrong?

BVB: Big Visible Belly graph
29 May 2007

It’s a good job I’m male

Otherwise I’d probably have had to go home and change, rather than spend the afternoon pairing with someone wearing a matching T-shirt.

Of course, since I am male, when I say ‘matching’ I actually mean ‘vaguely similar in colour’.

29 May 2007

An issue with mock-driven development in dynamically-typed languages

First, let me make it clear that I really like BDD, I really like mocks, and I really like dynamic languages. RSpec does a pretty good job of combining all three.

However, there’s one disadvantage that duck-typed languages suffer when it comes to using mocks to drive the design of the interfaces between objects.

Read the rest of this entry »

|