http://koans.tomo-online.com Seeking the non-answers of software Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:40:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You wake up one day http://koans.tomo-online.com/2010/06/25/manifesto/ Automatic memory management (aka Garbage Collection) has been a mainstream for way over the decade now. Java was the one to make it popular. Some might argue that Lisp or Smalltalk should take all the credits but I'm talking mainstream here. Nowadays, any reasonable programming environment has it. Java, .NET, ... http://koans.tomo-online.com/2008/09/29/garbage-collection-and-google-app-engine/ In most recent issue of Interactions there is an article by Aza Raskin on language command line. Aza postulates using the power of natural language and cross-application commands to enhance the usability of UIs. The flagship product of his company, Enso, shows exactly what he means. The article got me thinking. ... http://koans.tomo-online.com/2008/02/21/natural-language-commands/ I've been on a very boring meeting sometime last week. I used that time to improve my weather app :-) I've added a very simple function. In addition to showing current conditions, now you've got two more tabs with forecast for today and tomorrow. Enjoy. http://koans.tomo-online.com/2008/02/17/symbian-weather-app-a-quick-update/ This weekend I found some time to create my first application for my new phone. A tiny little app, in fact. I used Python to create a small weather application. When started, it asks for the city. Then, it fetches weather condition and forecast from Google. Then it displays current conditions. ... http://koans.tomo-online.com/2008/01/27/my-very-first-python-s60-app/ I bought it. Now the world of Symbian Python programming is mine oyster, which I with my emacs will open. http://koans.tomo-online.com/2008/01/22/its-done/ I simply can't get it out of my head. I felt in love with this little baby. Should my mobile operator offer it to me at slightly lower price, I would have bought it by now. Still, I can have it below market price. Do any of you have any experience ... http://koans.tomo-online.com/2008/01/16/cant-get-it-out-of-my-head/ My recent post inpired a friend of mine to write about the untestability of the code. Go check the entry before reading further, because it a response. Though I do agree with his general point - code that is hard to test probably is a bad code and should be refactored ... http://koans.tomo-online.com/2007/12/19/in-defense-of-a-static-method/ A small introduction: I've been writing a small piece of code recently. Since I'm test-infected, I cannot sleep well unless I've got test cases for everything I write. And I do use mock objects a lot - I test all my methods both in isolation. Sometimes writing a piece of functionality as ... http://koans.tomo-online.com/2007/12/18/mocking-static-methods/ Take a look at today's xkcd. Awesome. (P.S. The only think I miss in Python in a easy and portable and good-looking GUI toolkit.) http://koans.tomo-online.com/2007/12/05/import-antigravity/