Testing, Testing ... come in over

I'm doing some testing at the mo which normally makes me want to gnaw my own arm off. Made me think of the only decent testing book I ever read which was The Complete Guide to Software Testing by William Hetzel. It is and old book and ridiculously expensive, but very readable and very good. Makes you thinking of testing throughout the development process, how to test etc. I had it years ago but someone nicked it; there are perverts everywhere aren't there?

Ooooo Betty

Mrs Spuggy has arrived home with Betty. Betty is a lurcher aparrently, but she looks like a dog to me; she is eleven weeks old and craps in the house. Betty's arrival means I have slipped off the "guaranteed food" roster. Which is, in order of feeding:

Kid1: Isabel
Kid2: The Beast of Hammersmith
Kid3: The Evil Doctor Pud
Cat1: Laverne
Cat2: Shirley
Dog1: Betty
Bloke1: Spug

Mrs Spuggy says not to worry as pot noodles have really come on in the last few years. It is only a matter of time before I'm out at night rummaging in the bins with the badgers.

Woof.

Godzilla vs WSAD

I am doing a bit of Java development at the mo; inbetween fixing some bleeding awful @formula language Hammer House of Horror.

Uptil now I had been using jCreator and Ant and everything was just tickity-boo. It is fab and groovy and cheap and runs on my poofy portable - it works. Tonight I decided to give WSAD a whirl. Specifically WSAD with Websphere Device Developer.

What a pain in the arse. After getting it downloaded and installed things just didn't work. Couldn't get my project out of my CVS repository, the promised device developer WSAD integration didn't work; in short everything is a struggle. It is probably some silly incompatibility somewhere but for crying out loud it's the 21st century; I don't want to worry about this crap any more.

I guess it is not just WSAD I think I hate all big IDEs (JCreator, NetBeans, Symantec doo dah cafe, Visual Chutney++ for Windows). Maybe it's because I am some chickenshit developer but their promised "productivity gains" just don't materialize for me, they just get in the way and add another layer of mystery.

Moan, moan, moan.

Voice: "Is that a plane landing?"

Nope it's just me moaning and a-whinging.

Buskin' the Tube

Bo Duke from the Dukes of Uke busking at Lancaster Gate Tube station. Here Bo does a Pete Townsend windmill finish.

Hey look ... some people smoke crack ok?

n.b Posted on the train out of London Paddington, via Bluetooth, Nokia 6600 and a lot of crossed fingers, retrys and looking out the window while pages loaded. Sigh