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Monthly Archive August, 2008

Tesler’s Law

Mark Mzyk August 17, 2008

I was reading Bill de hOra the other day, and he mentions Tesler’s Law. I’d never heard of Tesler or his law, so I followed the link. Turns out Larry Tesler is a pretty big name in the user interface field, as far as I can gather, although his law is lacking a Wikipedia page [...]

Design,Software Engineering - 1 Comments


Nerf War Indicator

Mark Mzyk August 12, 2008

Can the amount of Nerf wars that occur in an office be an indication of the health of a company (or at least of employee moral)? The more Nerf wars that employees have is an indication they are happier. Why? It is a sign that people are being outgoing and embracing each other. As Nerf [...]

General - 1 Comments


Write Failing Unit Tests First

Mark Mzyk August 7, 2008

This is just a reminder that you should write failing unit tests first, so that when you forget if __name__ == ‘__main__’ unittest.main() in your test file, like I did, you don’t think everything is working because none of the tests fail.

Programming - 1 Comments