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Died in a Blogging Accident

January 11, 2008

I keep a Google Trends Gadget on my iGoogle search page to check out what the world cares about. Todays Top ten had me laughing. First off, far too many people are watching "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" Not only that, they are cheating while playing at home. If you have to use Google then you aren't. Second, I was intrigued by todays #6 entry. Searching on it didn't explain much until I came across this at xkcd.com. Nicely done, not only is it funny (as always with xkcd) , it also skewed Google's trend tracker. XKCD is one of my favorites and it's worth anyones time who enjoys geek humor. If you've never seen it before, be prepared to waste the next hour or so of your life. MrCopilot update 8:20am: There are now 1440 results from google making it the # 1 most dangerous on the list. I'm glad my warped sense of humor is shared. update 24 hrs later: Over 7,ooo results. I should really think about getting out of such a dangerous business. U...

Can KDE Save a Dying Windows Platform?

January 30, 2008

I want to start by telling a story. Bare with me. Once upon a time there was a software engineer. He wrote code, windows code, embedded firmware. He was happy. Then one day a new project is put before him, a project unlike any other he had encountered. It was going to require all new hardware, and the features, wow. Something like this is going to require a full blown Operating System not the usual rinky dink assembly program. Research leads to the inevitable conclusion, Linux. Further Research leads to a graphical toolkit called Qt (pronounced “Cute”.) A request was made and granted for a new workstation to create a new Linux development environment, after all the windows development machine was far too mission critical to muck about with dual booting and virtual machines. This engineer had some Linux experience on the desktop, having a PC or two running it on and off for the last couple of years. He picked his favorite distribution and after a bit more research had a fully worki...

To Mock or Not to Mock

January 08, 2026

Applications depend on data to function, and in the modern world that data is usually stored somewhere up in the nebulous concept known as the "cloud" but is actually a computer processing your requests and spitting back data. During the development of an application decisions about how to supply the required data and service those requests for more must be made. Here is a non-exhaustive list of options: Real live production Actual Data. That poor lil computer in the cloud did nothing to deserve being pummeled with malformed and/or repeated requests for the same data during live testing. Let alone tortured with automated testing on every commit. Be a considerate developer. Local Representative fake Data This is a good starting point. It has the unfortunate side effect of having to be manually updated, maintained, and carefully constructed with every edge case. Local Cached data captured from live session. Few downsides, requires vigilant maintenance and api level checks and...

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