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Comment on Lessons from the classroom by Xerxes

Xerxes — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:24:46 +0000

@Troy Hunt It's a good question, and I don't have an answer or even a suspected answer. My instinct tells me that firstly we need to remove other impediments which are interrupting the student's capability to learn this content (ie: they should drop all other subjects and focus on one thing at a time). Unlike the career programmer, the student is performing 3 or 4 additional roles at the same time, and not applying enough attention to probably any of them.

Comment on Lessons from the classroom by Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:18:47 +0000

Just a tangential thought: how much harder is it on a student working on an assignment pretty autonomously versus someone in a career working in a team? I suspect they wouldn’t have the same benefits of peer review or joint collaboration on the codebase and would need to spend more time winging it. Not quite sure how you address this in a class situation and the issue obviously isn’t unique to TDD but it might be compounded if trying to get to grips with multiple new concepts at once.

Comment on Lessons from the classroom by Dave

Dave — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:40:36 +0000

Mate, once you’ve finished teaching your students problem decomposition, can you teach me how on earth to do it??!? Please!!

Comment on Lessons from the classroom by Xerxes

Xerxes — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:40:34 +0000

Yes and no. Yes it will start to get them to “write tests” but they’re doing it out of necessity rather than doing it for the intended purpose. A student’s motivations are very clear when you look at the code they write.

Secondly, you have to remember that everything i’m doing is unofficial, not part of the curriculum and nowhere on the curriculum radar…

…but thanks for the positive feedback

Comment on Lessons from the classroom by Liam McLennan

Liam McLennan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:14:57 +0000

If you wanted to improve the ROI of unit testing all you have to do is include the tests in the assessment criteria. Sounds like you are doing a great job. I don’t remember having teachers who cared so much.

Comment on Making Resolving Conflicts in Git Easier by Paul Batum

Paul Batum — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:15:15 +0000

Any time!

Comment on Switching an IIS website home directory from the command line by Scott M

Scott M — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:33:00 +0000

This is EXACTLY what i needed! thanks!

Comment on Making Resolving Conflicts in Git Easier by Xerxes

Xerxes — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:20:01 +0000

well fuck…..

i knew of git difftool, just never realised the equivalent git mergetool.

cheers!

Comment on Making Resolving Conflicts in Git Easier by Paul Batum

Paul Batum — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:09:39 +0000

Why not just register your preferred diff tool in the git config, and then just use the git mergetool command?

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-mergetool.html

Comment on Opening a file in your favourite editor from the command line by Making Resolving Conflicts in Git Easier | The Tomes Of Experience

Making Resolving Conflicts in Git Easier | The Tomes Of Experience — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:33:54 +0000

[...] So i knocked up a quick bash script which makes use of git’s ability to create extensions for git commands. This script issues a rebase (i also have one for merge) and will fire off my preferred editor for editing files outside Visual Studio. [...]

Comment on Unsatisfied By My Specification Pattern by Dave Newman

Dave Newman — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:02:41 +0000

DSL in IronRuby or boo. You know you want to.

Comment on Opening a file in your favourite editor from the command line by Xerxes

Xerxes — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:16:49 +0000

nice one – didn’t know that. cheers!

Comment on Opening a file in your favourite editor from the command line by Dave Newman

Dave Newman — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:45:15 +0000

I’m an e guy as well, it’s the best editor i’ve found for windows. Just a quickie, in your batch file you can have
@start c:\progra~1\e\e.exe %*
which will copy all the args along.

Comment on Coo….Cooooooo by Xerxes

Xerxes — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:02:39 +0000

Apologies to those of you for whom this makes no sense.

This post was SUPPOSED to go into my other blog, but i hit the wrong button.

Damnit.

Comment on Increase Development Productivity With Tomatoes by farzadb82

farzadb82 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:39:42 +0000

Great idea. I’m going to have to give it a try in my day to day activities. But first I need to unwind from 4 weeks of consecutive grinding.

– F

Comment on IronRuby 0.9, Cucumber and the never-ending story by Xerxes

Xerxes — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:22:01 +0000

For anyone who read this post, it turns out there really was a bug in IronRuby and after logging the bug, they patched it up pretty quick!

http://ironruby.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=2008

Comment on Thread Safety and Locking by fedsafidofs

fedsafidofs — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:16:03 +0000

This look interesting,so far.
If there’s anyone else here, let me know.
Oh, and yes I’m a real person LOL.

See ya,

Comment on e Text Editor: “ruby: no such file to load — ubygems (LoadError)” by nicktea

nicktea — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:36:08 +0000

Fixed worked great for me. thanks!

Comment on Tunnel World of Warcraft Through SSH by Xerxes

Xerxes — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:36:37 +0000

@r4w the loopback device needs to be setup on Windows…the client…the computer you play WoW on. if you’re playing WoW on Linux, i doubt i can help you – sorry

In the instructions, under section 3.1, it says:
“To create the loopback adapter, just follow the Add New Hardware Wizard:
Next -> Add -> Add new -> Select from List -> Network adapters -> Microsoft -> Microsoft Loopback Adapter -> Next -> OK”

Comment on Tunnel World of Warcraft Through SSH by r4w

r4w — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:06:15 +0000

hello xerxes,

i´ve tried to create some loopback-devices ->
ifconfig lo 80.239.180.112 netmask 255.255.255.252
it seems to be ok… but is it correct?
(Kult der Verdammten: 80.239.180.112)

my putty-client seems to be correctly configured
Category: SSH-> Tunnels:
L(-ocal)127.0.0.6:3724 eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com:3724
L(-ocal)127.0.0.7:80 status.wow-europe.com:80
L(-ocal)80.239.180.112 80.239.180.112

portforwarding:
the portforwarding is enabled (i have changed the following line -> “#AllowTcpForwarding yes” into “AllowTcpForwarding yes”) and restartet the ssh-service

i hope.. you can help me… and sorry.. for these questions