Dr Wingnut

Category: Computer

  • Functional Tests

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    The tester on our CLICS project, who is not a native English speaker wrote down “screenario” for “scenario”; maybe we should start calling functional tests screenarios.  Thoughts?

  • Gmail production ready

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    Finally after 5 years, 3 months, and 6 days (1-Apr-2005 — 7-Jul-2009) Gmail has finally been promoted to production; whew — it’s a good thing I didn’t hold my breath…

  • Goodbye Compuserve

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    We will miss you, and your funny email addresses.  My very first email address was 70243,3623, which was later morphed to 70243.3623@compuserve.com.  I think I finally gave up Compuserve and a dialup account when AT&T first offered a broadband connection through the coax television cable around 1995.

  • Optimization

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    We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.Donald Knuth

  • Another good reason not to have an account

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    Twitter dulls compassion for human suffering.Findings, Harpers June 2009, Pg. 84

  • Happy Birthday COBOL!

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    The world’s most demonized legacy software development language (See the world didn’t end because of the Y2K crisis) turns fifty-years-old today.  I think the talk of it’s certain demise in the 1990s was a little exaggerated.  And, although I haven’t used it in years, I still have my college COBOL textbook, and I fondly remember…

  • Geek Pride Day

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    Today is a very special day!  Today is when we celebrate our geekiness and celebrate one of our favorite geeks, Douglas Adams.Show your geek respect today by carrying a towel all day, and participating in a nerdy event.See: Geek Pride, Towel Day, and Towel Day.org