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On Retrospectives: Video Lunch and Learn at Covenant Eyes

zachary.spencer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:07:25 +0000

I had opportunity to discuss retrospectives in a presentation at work, so I recorded it and published the slides on slideshare.

The REAL Reason We Automate Testing

zachary.spencer — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:20:07 +0000

We were discussing implementation of an automated regression test suite, and this scenario kind of popped into my head. It’s funny, dagnabit.

Experimenting with Test Driven Development: BEHOLD The GUMBALL machine!

zachary.spencer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:27:37 +0000

Last weekend I got the itch to do some development again, so I built myself a gumball machine out of PHP. I haven’t built an actual interface for the machine, but I wanted to see if I could create a system using TDD that didn’t require a user interface at all. I normally build interface back, so this was something of a challenge for me.

The source code is freely available to steal, call your own, and sell for billions of dollars without crediting me. However, if I see a gumball machine in Windows 8 I’ll know why! Download it right now!

Much Thanks to Tom Wright, who updated my original thesaurus command with a preview pane!

zachary.spencer — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:52:12 +0000

Woohoo! Open Source at work! much thanks to Tom Wright, who sent me an email with an update to the Thesaurus Ubiquity Command. Not sure how to do multiple contributors, or I’d add him.

My First Ubiquity Command – Thesaurus

zachary.spencer — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:15:31 +0000

Another Update! A reader named Justin was so kind as to update the command to include support for Ubiquity .5. Thanks a ton Justin!

Update! Tom Wright sent me an updated script for it with a preview pane! I’ve updated the original JS file!

OK, so I’ve been slacking lately… But I found I had need of a thesaurus and figured ubiquity would be a great place to start. The command is simply “thesaurus word” and it opens up a thesaurus.reference.com page with the, you guessed it, word . Not sure how much time it will save, but it is nice for pulling up quick references. Future revisions will include a preview pane… Maybe.