I’ve been a big fan of unit testing for a while (ever since the first releases of JUnit) but I haven’t been up-to-date with the latest technology. To be perfectly honest, I hadn’t expected anything else to appear after unit testing was first popularized. That’s why I was surprised to come across an off-hand reference to “Mock Objects” a few days back. Basically, Mock Objects are a true way to test an object “in a box” - ie: completely separate from the rest of your system.
I’ve had trouble with a lot of the stereo anaglyphs that NASA’s been publishing. Most of them seem to have a stereo separation that is completely incompatible with my brain. I finally found a few images that actually work with my red/blue glasses (from this page):
The trick is to tilt your head just right. If you find that you’re seeing a lot of shimmering, trying relaxing your eyes and focussing on infinity - it’ll be easier to find the correct head angle that way. Oh yeah - move the mouse pointer off too.
… fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the moment, the second you get what you seek, you don’t, you can’t want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, desire must have it’s objects perpetually absent. It’s not the it that you want; it’s the fantasy of it. So desire supports crazy fantasies. This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. Or why we say the hunt is sweeter than the kill, or be careful what you wish for. Not because you’ll get it, because you’re doomed not to want it once you do.
So the lesson of Leccan is, living by your wants will never make you happy. What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals, and not to measure your life by what you’ve attained in terms of your desires, but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives, is by valuing the lives of others.
Just to keep those reading the front-page news up to date, 0.9 is in development and should be out once we’ve finishing implementing and polished up some of the neat new features that will be in this release:
There are two known bugs that I’m hoping to get fixed for 0.9 as well:
Just saw this one on boing boing - Mixmaster.
[It] allows you to ‘mix’ two entirely different webpages.
The whitehouse.gov meets AOL HAXXOR has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Slightly amusing is Microsoft meets TheOnion and Instapundit meets Rense.com.
Should be work-safe.
Twice this week I’ve seen a situation where a popular blogger has been pestered by his readers to change the content of his blogs.
Last week, Chris Sells (of MSDN fame) posted an article entitled “Bush: Get Your Own Dream!” with his views on space exploration and foreign oil dependence. There were two particularly asinine comments made:
Unsubscribed. Just lost a ton of respect for Sells. “nuff said”
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The nprof 0.8b alpha release is now available. This release should fix the ASP.NET profiling problems that have come up during the 0.8 release cycle.
The nprof 0.8a alpha release is now available. This fixes two bugs in the 0.8 release:
NOTE: I recommend setting up ASP.NET to run under the SYSTEM account for profiling only. Once you’ve finished profiling, you should set it back to use the “machine” user. As before, these XML attributes are available in your machine.config file.
The nprof 0.8 alpha release is now available. Changes in this version are:
To profile your ASP.NET application:
