Never underestimate how far some flight simulator aficionados will go with their builds. No detail is too small, and every aspect of the look and feel has to accurately reflect the real cockpit. As…
I swear I never intended to publish a bunch more on TDD. But here we are. This is one from the archives, first published November 2010. It’s for TDDers who want to stretch their skills. In Tidy First? land we talk about the Succession Problem—in what order do we make decisions? The more, different orders you can manage, the more options you have for:
In his book On War, Clausewitz defines friction as the difference between military theory and reality:
Thus, then, in strategy everything is very simple, but not on that account very easy. Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction, which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen war.
As an instance of [friction], take the weather.
A brief history of web development. And why your framework doesn't matter.
This is how I remember the crazy journey that web development has gone through in the past few years. Or rather this is *my* journey being a web developer. So I will omit events. I may mess up the timeline. This whole article may not be of any use to you. But for me, putting all the history I know into writing helped me appreciate how much things stay the same no matter how much they change.
At Reason, Christian Britschgi (“Do Not Under Any Circumstances Nationalize Greyhound”) celebrates America’s “extensive network of private, for-profit (and profitable) intercity bus services primarily serving lower-income people” as “a great example of how the free market can provide an essential service without public subsidies.” There are a lot of questionable, or outright ahistorical, assumptions implicit...
We always can use more tools for FPGA debugging, and the Manta project by [Fischer Moseley] delivers without a shadow of a doubt. Manta lets you add a debug and data transfer channel between your c…
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.