Exploring Extreme Programming
In building a cache for the SortTables™ data viewer, I ran across three hidden things. An LRU Cache I want to view data sets that are larger than memory, so I developed a cache that gets rid of the Least Continue reading Programming: Using What’s Hidden
TDD with a user interface (UI) is a challenge: you have to decide which parts to test. Recently, Ted Young has been using the Yacht dice game (the root of the commercial game Yahtzee) as a testbed for TDD with Continue reading TDD & GUI in Swift
Elm in Action, by Richard Feldman. ISBN 978-1617294044. (Amazon, Manning) This is a great introduction to the Elm language. It starts from basic concepts, and uses a running example of a photo browser to demonstrate many concepts: elm constructs, talking Continue reading Review: Elm in Action
Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide (2/e), by Dick Grune and Ceriel J.H. Jacobs This book covers a huge range of parsing techniques – every parsing technique I’d heard of, and many more. Once Donald Knuth gets ready to produce volume Continue reading Review: Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide (2/e)
Extreme Programming Explored, by William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2001. Foreword by Dave Thomas (The Pragmatic Programmer). This book grew out of the XPlorations series of articles. I wrote them as I was learning XP, and relating it to my own Continue reading Extreme Programming Explored