dave astels

Alexey Moudrick has translated my “Why Your Code Sucks” blog post into Russian. Enjoy.. and if you don’t read Russian.. it still looks pretty cool.

If you’re a fan of Leonardo da Vinci or The Davinci Code… (and run OS X) check out this screensaver.

For those who are security minded (and shouldn’t we all be), here is my public key:

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Tuesday morning my laptop died.. no not my Powerbook.. that would have completely unexpected… the Windows ThinkPad I use for my current client… courtesy of said client. It just wouldn’t boot. Something about an unmountable drive.. bluescreen but it didn’t stay in place long enough to read before it valiantly, yet futilely, tried to boot again.

Not good. I wasn’t heading back to Chicago & the client for almost a week. Was I dead in the water? Could I not work for the week?

Well.. Nancy to the rescue! It took most of the day, but she eventually found some bad sectors, blocked them out, etc and got the thing to boot again. No data loss.. nothing acting odd. It’s been behaving itself all week so far.

sSpec is up & running under VisualWorks!

DO-ITing

TextSpecRunner verbose
	runAll: (OrderedCollection
		with: SampleContextWithFailingSpec new
		with: SampleContext new)

results in the following in the Transcript:

sample context with failing spec
	should fail (FAILED 1)
	should pass
sample context
	should be spec one
	should be spec two

2 contexts, 4 specs, 1 failures
0.044 seconds
1) ExpectationNotMetError in ' sample context with failing spec should fail'
should be even
SSpec.ShouldHelper(SSpec.ShouldBase)>>failWithMessage:

The code for the example specs is trivial, for example:

Smalltalk.SSpec defineClass: #SampleContextWithFailingSpec
	superclass: #{SSpec.SpecContext}
	indexedType: #none
	private: false
	instanceVariableNames: ''
	classInstanceVariableNames: ''
	imports: ''
	category: 'SSpec-Structural Tests'!

!SSpec.SampleContextWithFailingSpec methodsFor: 'specs'!

shouldFail
	5 should be even!

shouldPass
	5 should be odd! !

Sure, a few things need tweaking… and there needs to be a gui based runner, ability to debug a failing spec, etc. ( I want to hook into the sUnit browser integration :) )… but the core is up & running nicely. With a builtin rSpec-like Mock framework as well.
Tags: bdd smalltalk sspec

As you know if you’ve been following my blog, we’ve recently started playing Settlers of Catan. The other day Nancy picked up the expansion so we can play up to 6 players now.

Since picking up the 2 player rules, Nancy & I have made it a nightly routine to play a couple games. Here’s our gaming “corner” in the office:

So we had 4G iPod cradles from my earlier iPod (one came with the iPod, then I got a stereo connect kit). So when we got 5G iPods they sort of fit.. then we got hardshell cases to prevent scratching.. and the cradles no longer fit.

Not to be defeated by this, nancy just spent the evening sawing, Dremeling, and carving to make the necessary adjustments (aka hacks) to the cradles to make them fit once more.

She took some pics and expect she’ll be blogging about the process.

Seaside is the new black: “

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(Via Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants.)