Monthly Archives: July 2008

Pair programming and microarrays

Posted on 7/9/2008 by Moses

Yesterday I met with folks at Lawrence Berkeley labs. The PI entered the room, full of energy and clearly ducking briefly out of the fray to speak with us. Part of the discussion revolved around microarray experiments. We’ve all heard … Continue reading →

Posted in Informatics, Open R&D, Software | Tagged | 3 Comments

DTrace predicate hack

Posted on 7/6/2008 by Moses

One of the things I keep wanting in DTrace’s D language but isn’t there (right?) is a richer set of string comparison functions. Ideally I want full regular expression functionality, so that I can predicate actions on, say, regex matches … Continue reading →

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Too many mock objects == ruby refactoring death

Posted on 7/6/2008 by Moses

It’s a question we face as test-driven ruby programmers: Should we use mock objects or real objects in our tests? Both approaches have trade-offs, and their biggest downsides both have to do with wasting programmer time. If you test with … Continue reading →

Posted in Rails, Software, Testing | 4 Comments