Archive for July, 2008

Borromean Rings

July 26, 2008

These are cool. No two rings are interlocked but all three are. Removing one makes the others fall apart as well. Still trying to figure out whether three human hands can form rings to try this out :)

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BorromeanRingRemoval/

Only things that are measured ever get improved

July 20, 2008

from http://highscalability.com/robert-scobles-rules-successfully-scaling-startups

The Return of Tony Almeida

July 18, 2008

When the return of Tony Almeida is the highlight of a day then that wasn’t a good day. If it is the only thing you talk about, then there probably aint much to talk about anymore.

Have to insist more

July 10, 2008

When dealing with others I have to insist more on policies and rules I support. Failing to do so will just worsen the situation.

Good Names

July 6, 2008

The opposite of a good name sounds (at least a bit) unsatisfactory:

The Pragmatic Programmer – who wants to be unpragmatic?

Found: Test Driven Development, Kent Beck

Template Method

July 5, 2008

pattern. an abstract method in a superclass just calling methods implemented in subclasses, so that call order always remains the same


runTest(){

  setUp();

  run();

  tearDown();

}