Comment on How to write software by Peter Armstrong

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:29:51 +0000

Hi Matijs,

I revised my post which you linked to a bit to remove things which would offend people for the wrong reasons. (You’re Dutch, so I assume you will know exactly what I’m talking about—it’s too bad that not all cultures are as tolerant of criticism as yours (or as Canada’s, which is where I’m from).)

(If I’m going to offend people, I want it to be for the right reasons! And I didn’t want to go down the path I had started down with my blog post since I have a young son to think about. As such, I’m going to keep my opinions constrained to things which just generate virtual flamewars :-)

Anyway, after doing all the cowardly revision, the “People Need Gaudy Shit” phrasing didn’t make much sense anymore (it only made sense comparatively). So I just deleted it.

Anyway, thanks for the trackback and sorry I ruined it :-)

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Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:02:24 +0000

Let’s talk about mocking. It apparently is the hot new thing in Rails land. And like earlier silver bullets, it’s becoming a religion: Acolytes would rather write ten lines to set up a mock object than one to instantiate an actual one….

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