In response to my last post pontificating on a future where not only do our IDE's perform background compilation and real-time syntax checking, but they also run our unit tests - or some other kind of behavioural checks - in the background too, and inform us in real-time if the code we're writing has broken anything, the very help

Maybe I'm being incredibly naive here, but isn't there a danger that people will abuse Inversion of Control as just a way to hide dependencies from the compiler?

The dependency doesn't go away. If I edit my IoC configuration files, it can break my code. And that means I have to treat those files and their contents as production code.

In Internet Explorer 8, the maximum number of concurrent connections to a host has been increased to 6.  However, the HTTP 1.1 Specification states there is a 2 connection limit:

"Clients that use persistent connections should limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client should not maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy"

So all browsers should limit connections to 2.  What's up with IE8??

“They never give us enough time to automate our tests, and then theycomplain at us that we don’t test fast enough!” J. shook her head.“And when I want to hire more people to help automate, they tell me Ihave too many people already! Management blames me because testingtakes too long, but they won’t support [...]