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• Commented on Yanick Champoux joins Dancer core team
  Go Yanick! I have met him in person, so I can attest to his charm. He is quite an asset to the Perl community. Congrats!...
• Commented on The Mind-killer
  Wow, excellent post, Buddy! Your main point, elimination of fear, is something that I wholeheartedly agree with. As I stated in a slide from my TDD presentation, the test suite serves as a "safety harness" for developers, allowing them to...

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• Buddy Burden commented on The Mind-killer

  @cosimo:

  Whether the test has been written before or after the code doesn't make much difference, at least with regards to guaranteeing code robustness (writing a test case before the code actually makes the code better, that's for sure!). In fact, every test will fail initially no matter what, because you have no code to run against it, by definition.

  Hmmm ... I'm not sure if you're agreeing with me or disagreeing with me. :-) The purpose of writing the test before the code is not so much to guarantee code robustness as to improve (I'd say "guarantee…

• yanick.myopenid.com commented on Yanick Champoux joins Dancer core team

  I can't say how honored, humbled and excited by this... mostly because I can't stop squealing like a whole school bus of little girls on their way to Pony-Land long enough. ^.^

  Once the squealing abates a little bit, I'll probably write something a little more posed. But for the time being, I just wanted to say 'thanks', and to solemnly promise to do my best such that this day will never come to be known as "What Were We Thinking?" day for the Dance Crew.

• leifove commented on The Mind-killer

  (Sorry for commenting a 4 months old post...)

  I fully agree on the "removing fear" aspect, since this was exactly one of the Aha! moments from my first serious experiment with TDD. Some months ago I wrote an "automator" for one of the more painful, manual processes I have to perform from time to time at work (build & package software releases for embedded targets).
  I knew the Perl code would grow to several hundreds of lines, and the finished, automated process simeply HAD to work EVERY time, so I figured this would be a good time to get down and dirty with TDD. Yes, it took l…