Archive for the “Development” category
Test Driving TDD
by iampeterbanjo on July 27, 2011
I have become inspired and convinced by the idea of test driven development. Kent Beck said it best when he said – We write code because that is our work and we write tests so that we know when we (…)
Wrangling with SQL regular expressions
by iampeterbanjo on March 2, 2011
I have been doing some data wrangling recently. One problem I worked through was how to find all the instances of a new line character that had made it’s way into our database. After some researching the query looked like (…)
AJAX cross-domain request using iframes
by iampeterbanjo on February 27, 2011
I had a situation where I had to send a form to a 3rd party email subscription management thingy. But every time I posted the form using jQuery the browser was killing it because of cross-domain restrictions. I asked around (…)
Coupling – not the dating kind
by iampeterbanjo on August 15, 2010
I just watched Grand Unified Theory of Software Design by Jim Weirich on Vimeo and I found it quite insightful. The main aim of his talk as I understand is to come up with an object way of recognizing and (…)
Tip of the Day: no SVN for Chrome extensions
by iampeterbanjo on June 1, 2010
It is futile trying to get chrome samples via SVN. It’s not possible!!
Web Development as a science
by iampeterbanjo on November 8, 2009
I was talking with some co-workers this week and I commented that I think we are getting to that point in the web development industry where things need to start coming together as a science. And by science I mean (…)