I’d like to apologise on VPS.net’s behalf, my blog has been slow and unresponsive for the last couple of months. Despite a SAN upgrade and my VM being moved to a different hypervisor, and my VM’s disk performance being ‘tuned’ by tech support … eventually it falls back to a snails pace. VPS.net have been plagued by their SAN choice for a while. I’ll switch to Linode over Christmas.

Merry Christmas to all!

Maybe that end part, doesn’t get object oriented design is a bit sensationalist. Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for Joel. He speaks a lot of sense, his blog and books are testament to that … I own a few of them.

I might be a couple of years late on this … it wasn’t until I was researching an answer to a question on the Stack Exchange Programmers site about test driven design that I stumbled across this blog post by Robert Martin.

So I listened to episode 38 of the StackOverflow podcast, and figured Joel might have said the things he did to stir things up a bit, and light a fire of conversation for the podcast. More Googling lead me to other evidence that he thinks unit testing is a time waster.
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I started writing this post some months ago back in September but never got around to finishing it. At first this post was going to be me singing my praises for Ubuntu and how well Ubuntu supports the Macbook Pro. Unfortunately in that time I’ve now moved to Mac OS X…
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