So the other night I was reading Beautiful Code by Oram & Wilson et al, and got to the article Beautiful Tests by Alberto Savoia. In this chapter, Alberto discusses the origins of JUnit. What he said about the ambitions, goals, and accomplishments of JUnit was perfectly true, but it got me to thinking about [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
VMWare Fusion: Nice box!
06Aug07 – 10:55
VMWare’s Fusion virtualization for the Mac is out, and it has a really nice looking box.
VMWare’s Srinivas Krishnamurti tells the story:
While not quite Apple-esque, we felt that this was a clean look and conveyed the essence of our product. We all felt that black background was more appealing than other colors we considered. [...]
NY Times outs Fake Steve
05Aug07 – 14:43
Turns out he is an editor at Forbes Magazine. Didn’t see that coming… At any rate, want to welcome Mr. Lyons to the world of non-anonymity. The blog is a fantastic piece of work, so I hope the unmasking doesn’t ruin anything.
Asked whether he was worried that he would be called to account for [...]
Herb Sutter on the Cyclic Nature of the Computer Industry
02Aug07 – 16:01
Herb Sutter of Microsoft has written an insightful post about the cyclic nature of the computer industry, entitled “The Pit and the Pendulum“. In it, he talks about the natural tension in the industry between what he calls the Center and the Edge, and what Craig Mundie (as quoted in the article) calls Personal Computing [...]
