Month: June 2008
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Saving the DRY-Dogma
Recently (well some time ago, but I am thinking at a leisurely pace) Jay discussed how he thinks, that DRY is not neccessarily the most important thing, when it comes to writing tests. As I a am working on a huge (by agile standards) project for a while now, I feel very dogmatic about DRY,…
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Don’t get knocked up and drink
I found this on my beer bottle the other day: It is consistent with my previous observations about the british being fond of being patronised.
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To Hell with Virtualisation – Updated
These days virtualisation seems to be all the rage. There are some benefits to it. It’s a way to increase the utilsation of your hardware just as pipelining increases the utilisation of the processor’s execution units. But as pipelining it comes at a price. You might increase the throughput, but the latency gets higher. Furthermore…
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New Home in Holloway
After an intense Month of flat-hunting and another month of waiting for broadband I am now fully equipped in my new Holloway house-share. My current commute is about the same as from the oval. But lets show some pictures (note that most of the stuff that is lying around is actually mine). There is a…