Monthly Archives: April 2014

I think we all know at least a couple people who are still on Windows XP. Earlier in April Microsoft dropped support for Windows XP (No April Fools!); and unfortunately shortly thereafter a remote code execution bug was found in Internet Explorer. If upgrading to a new OS is out of the question, browser alternatives such as Firefox and Chrome are not vulnerable to the exploit.

A very interesting post from David Hansson; taking a step back from the TDD process and examining its usefulness.

Having played with a TDD approach on a couple small personal side projects, I initially liked the process; specifically the strong definition of use cases and a confidence that a refactor or change would not cause side effects in other areas. Some of the other areas I did not find nearly as useful and ran into longer development due to having to update classes and the unit tests associated only with those classes.

I’m glad to see people taking objective looks at the process and pointing out some areas we can look to improve it.

Can you download a house? Now you can!

3D printing is making leaps and bounds recently; multi-compound printing and now large structures are exciting new developments. I am excited to see additional ways to provide compounds to printers (perhaps a recycle system to reuse bad or broken output). A standard compound format coupled with the ability to reuse could have these devices repairing and generating household items!