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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

We’ll replace that test and start by writing the test that seems simplest to me—incrementing the score for player one. Let’s call scorePlayerOnePoint once, and verify that the new score ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

What Is the iPad’s Greatest Shortcoming? Alan Oppenheimer: “No multitasking.” Alan Smithee: “I was surprised by the lack of a camera. Flash? A colleague said, ‘Doesn’t even support Flash? Duuuuude, ...
( Category: other October 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Enter the Mikado Method Mikado is a pick-up sticks game originating in Europe. In 1936 it was brought from Hungary to the USA and was mostly called pick-up sticks. Probably ...
( Category: other October 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

find the cause, fix the problem. It seems easy, doesn’t it? Yet the steps aren’t always easy to follow. Easily Reproduce The Problem If you can’t reproduce the problem easily, ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Displaying Any Image Since there are 256 tiles available, drawing an image is straightforward if it uses 256 or fewer tiles. If the image is small, say 128x128 pixels, then ...
( Category: other October 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Scala for the Intrigued Sensible Typing and Optional Items by Venkat Subramaniam In this second installment of this series on the Scala programming language, Venkat shows how Scala’s static typing ...
( Category: other October 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Test Abstraction Unit tests, particularly those created as a virtue of doing test-driven development (TDD), must document the essence of what’s going on: What data is being created for purposes ...
( Category: other October 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Costs and Limitations of TDD As with any new technique worth adopting, TDD incurs a learning curve overhead. You’ve already seen the three simple rules of TDD—that’s really all there ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

But We Already Paid For It If your organization has invested significant money in an agile PM tool, we’re not telling you to discard it (not yet, at least). Before ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Caching, an Example of Caring about Implementation Details Object oriented programming is all about encapsulation and information hiding. Conventional wisdom suggests that you shouldn’t care about the details. I wholeheartedly ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Keeping it Fresh At this point, we have, at least in theory, a well-tested wrapper that contacts the API, a well-tested model that interacts with the wrapper, and an integration ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

digitalWrite(ledPins[mood], LOW); mood = newMood; digitalWrite(ledPins[mood], HIGH); } With this code loaded on the device, try rerunning your tests. You’ll need to set the MOOD_HAT environment variable to your Lilypad’s ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Imagine No Dependencies A lot of Node developers will tell you that attaching things to global rather than exports is a no-no. And if you’re packaging your code as a ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Agile Reflections A Dozen Years or so of Agile Development Practices by Jeff Langr, Tim Ottinger Jeff and Tim take a break from their recent articles on agile practices to ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf

user=> (second '(println "a")) ;=> "a" This is a result of Lisp’s remarkable property of code being data. A Little Closer to Clojure Using the tick, we can get halfway ...
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