Re: Users who compulsively highlight or click text as they read it - are you out there?

2012-04-16 Thread Mark Ryall
I do this occasionally because it is a very useful way to highlight something when you're talking to someone. I have also worked with several people who do this more compulsively whenever reading. In place editing is useful but should not be enabled just by clicking on the text. It is always

Re: unit testing gone mad

2011-06-05 Thread Mark Ryall
There's a lot of opinion and not much science with TDD. I'd be sceptical of someone who introduced themselves as a TDD ninja. It takes an enormous amount of practice to develop expertise (5,000 hours) so almost everyone is a beginner. Read Kent Beck and Uncle Bob on what they think is best to

Re: [OT] Backups

2011-06-04 Thread Mark Ryall
Yes - I always back up your svn repositories On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: *Danger Will Robinson*! A version control system is not a backup. That seems like a strange statement. Surely it depends what you're backing up. Strange arguably, but no: who

Re: Dynamic ORM?

2011-05-08 Thread Mark Ryall
for same query (single and multi record). it also returns multi resultsets with good speed too. 10 result sets from 1 stored proc in 20 millisecs. On 5/8/11, Mark Ryall mark.ry...@gmail.com wrote: I've heard of a few projects that needed to do something like this (mingle is one that comes

Re: Dynamic ORM?

2011-05-07 Thread Mark Ryall
I've heard of a few projects that needed to do something like this (mingle is one that comes to mind) where the structure of your entities can be modified at runtime. It gets really complicated very quickly - especially in getting the implementation to perform adequately. This seems a better fit

Re: In praise of SQLite

2010-12-04 Thread Mark Ryall
sqlite is amazingly ubiquitous these days. Most mozilla (or mozilla based) projects use sqlite for any relational storage (including html5 databases) - firefox, songbird, thunderbird, etc. - as did google gears. Other miscellaneous applications seem to favour it these days - calibre ebook

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-05 Thread Mark Ryall
I'm using svn again now after using git and hg for a few years (tfs was in there too - i don't want to talk about that). I always liked svn and found it adequate but don't anymore. There's nothing a DVCS provides that you can't live without - just as 64Kb of RAM was once perfectly adequate.

Re: Properties

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Ryall
If you create some library that expose anemic DTO classes that have public and mutable fields and no behaviour then you'll have great difficulty ever taking that away. That applies even if you're the only consumer. There are certainly some occasions where this is justifiable (for serialising

Re: [OT] Adobe reader replacement

2010-08-21 Thread Mark Ryall
Acrobat is some seriously astonishing bloatware. Sumatra pdf is pretty clean - http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:39 PM, David Tchepak tche...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for PDF-XChange. On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Arjang Assadi

Re: regarding db sync

2010-06-09 Thread Mark Ryall
I meant to say this in one of the previous threads on this topic. The conventional approach seems to be to manage a set of sql files per database (one file per table, stored proc, view, function, etc.) which when run in the correct order (constraints after tables, views after tables, etc.) will