Categories: Agile, Tekkie Stuff Tags: , agile, refactoring, tdd
In my last blog post I wrote about my self-experiment with TDD. As this was real fun, I continued and took it all a bit further. On my journey I continued to follow the TDD principles and did quite a lot of refactoring. For example, I found out that having 7 or even 14 ‘inning’ [...]
Categories: Agile, Tekkie Stuff Tags:
Today I’d like to share my experiences from a short TDD self-experiment with you. No, this is not about the latest designer drug but about an agile software development technique stemming from Extreme Programming called “Test Driven Development”. (If you want to learn about TDD, there are plenty of resources available online or in old-fashioned [...]
Categories: Tekkie Stuff Tags: , blog, fonts, web design, wordpress
There you go again … So I think I’m finally done with my web design for now, having tested it with different browsers, on Mac OS and Windows, and there it is – yet another problem: Thanks Sven for pointing me to that issue! Obviously, with certain unfortunate OS/browser combination, the fonts get badly pixel’ed. [...]
Categories: Tekkie Stuff, Thoughts Tags: , blog, customization, theme, web design, wordpress
Phew, there it is eventually – my new website! Well, it is really my good old wordpress blog extended (R.I.P. www.projectzone.wordpress.com). Please remove your old bookmarks and subscribe to the new RSS feed. Hope you’ll enjoy it. It was quite a bit of fun to do some form of coding again, after a long long [...]
Categories: Tekkie Stuff Tags: , apple, impress, keynote, openoffice, powerpoint
Yesterday, I ‘just’ wanted to import a Powerpoint presentation into OpenOffice.org Impress and create a rather simplistic presentation. Phew, what an experience… It started off pretty well. After importing, the slides didn’t look too messy, so I wanted to adjust the Slide Master, for some better alignment and a few issues of personal taste. To [...]
Categories: Blog, Books & Papers, Tekkie Stuff, Thoughts Tags: , drm, iphone, prince2, prince2 2009
So I bought this heavily DRM-restricted Prince2 2009 PDF for roughly 100 EUR. It is easy to read on the laptop. So far, so good. I didn’t try printing it yet. Now I thought, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to read it on my iPhone, too? This way I could look things up [...]
Categories: Blog, Tekkie Stuff Tags: , macbook issues
Since I installed the Keyboard Firmware Upgrade on my MacBook Pro, I got these REALLY annoying effects like: Shift key sticks whenever I press it a nanosecond too long. Unnerving clicking sounds whenever I press a function key. And these wonderful cryptic signs in the bottom left corner of my screen… well at least they [...]
