I was asked by a colleague on the bus (hi Ian!) about systems testing. After bending his ear for about an hour I promised to write some notes, so here we are. Before going further, I must admit that what I will describe here is something of my platonic ideal. …
I’m at the point where complex prerequisites can be parsed and resolved. Prerequisites: Spell Focus (conjuration) or Skill Focus (Spellcraft) and Alertness feat or Arcane Strike feat, Weapon Focus. This is contrived — the original is just “Spell Focus (conjuration)”, but I wanted to see if I could do something …
A little over eleven years ago I had a need for an OCR library for a project at work. The commercial ones we had available weren’t doing what we needed (such as “not crash”, “read characters accurately”, and “be reasonably priced”) so I did a little digging around and found …
I know I’ve asked this online before, but is Tourette Syndrome an occupational hazard of being a programmer? I swear, it’s things like this that are going to cause me to develop it. I’ve just been through one of the more frustrating exercises, debugging database calls that look just fine. …
