November 2006

FedEx: To the world on time–and not a minute sooner!

by steve on November 20, 2006

I generally think FedEx does a great job, but a recent experience left me scratching my head. I ordered something online and paid for express shipping. The package left Oregon on Saturday, arrived in Tennessee on Sunday morning, in Oakland Sunday evening, and in my home town early Monday morning. There it sat for 24 [...]

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Chance Favors the Prepared Unit Test

by steve on November 3, 2006

Sometimes you just get lucky. I was at my desk last Sunday working on some items for the upcoming release of Storyist, when my unit tests (I am religious about unit tests) started complaining. Since the problem was in an area of code that I hadn’t touched for quite a while, I was curious to [...]

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