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Not Another TDD Fight!
Submitted by jamie on Thu, 25/09/2008 - 12:21.Two people in disagreement. But, I think they are both right. I comment on the second article because I cannot comment on the other.
The Complaint:
http://ww2.samhart.com/node/125
The Response:
http://www.gridshore.nl/2008/09/16/that-sounds-unnecessarily-uncomfortab...
Python - Thread Synchronization and Thread-safe Operations
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Corey Goldberg) on Thu, 25/09/2008 - 17:03.This is the best article on thread synchronization in Python that I have come across: Thread Synchronization Mechanisms in Python
It is very clearly explained and just helped me solve a major concurrency issues I was having.
Especially interesting is the list of thread safe operations in Python.
Here are some thread-safe operations:
TDD. Killing the messenger?
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Steve Freeman) on Thu, 25/09/2008 - 20:30.Are we really doomed to another generation of procedural code masquerading as objects?
Roy Osherove has come out against "mocking" in favour of "isolating". One reading of his point is that mocking is just too hard for the bulk of the programmers he sees. Perhaps that's true (the others developers who discovered the technique are all very good) but I hope not (either that or I should increase my rates). And I'm pleased to see Oren, for one, has responded.