Tag Archives: Programming and Software Development

So, I wasn’t very good at responding to all the comments on my original post, so I’m going to exercise my editorial fiat and just respond to them all at once, and call it a new blog post. Ain’t I clever?

Does anyone know of a border-rounding solution that doesn’t suck? curvyCorners looks great in Firefox, but tears badly in IE 7 in any case other than their demo. Nifty Corners Cube doesn’t seem to do anything at all, although I can see that it put all kinds of stuff into my DOM via FireBug.

There’s been a lot of nattering about the usefulness, or lack thereof, of a college-level CS degree to a programmer. The most recent of which to cross my transom, is this post, but I think it all started with a post by Joel. The problem with this debate is that it presupposes three things, all [...]

Okay, now that I’ve griped at MySQL a bit, I need to say something nice about it: the toolset support (at least on RoR) is second-to-none. As a great example, check out assert_efficient_sql, a plug-in which allows you to write unit tests and check for inefficient SQL queries. At this point, it mainly looks for [...]

So, at my current gig, we’re using Microsoft Word to edit FIT files. For an introduction to FIT, check out my post “FIT, AntFit, and FitNesse: Test-Based Communication Tools“. For a conversation on using version controlled files editted in MSWord vs. FitNesse, check out Todd and I talking over here. Anyway, we ran into a [...]