The Wise Old Geek

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  • 31/03/2010

    Transparency

    Note: this post is part of a planned series on what values I wish to promote through my daily work What do I mean by transparency Based on my quite short but wide experience in the IT business, I must say that sometimes (not to say often) people do business like they play poker. The […]

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    Open source, Values
    agile, business, honesty, talk, transparency
  • 19/03/2010

    Using fake data to test your software

    A little story A couple of years ago, I was sitting at my desk at a customer office. The guy next to me was demonstrating an application built by another company to his colleague. The tool was built with an obscure WYSIWYG IDE that packaged its own framework and language. The point of using a […]

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    Software craftmanship
    fake, Python, random, tdd
  • 10/03/2010

    Parallel computing

    There’s something I felt very curious about for some time now : parallel programming. The name sounded great, conveyed the same feeling as in “horsepower”, the feeling that you can do impressive things with it. Unfortunately, occasions are pretty rare to use that kind of technology if you: are not in a “number crunching” industry […]

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    Tools
    condor, crunching, parallel
  • 09/03/2010

    Test driven development in .NET

    Several months after discovering TDD in Python thanks to Eric Jones, I don’t think I could develop anymore without it. Currently working on a different project in .NET, the first thing I did was re-installing NUnit (I already gave it a try several years ago, but without understanding how to use it, it was soon […]

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    Software craftmanship
    .net, Python, tdd
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