January 2010
3 posts
https://panopticlick.eff.org/ →
The EFF have been looking into how many bits of identifying information your browser provides to the sites you visit. They suspect: very many. They have an experiment called Panopticlick running to test this out for real. It’s fascinating. As an example, my own fingerprint was unique amongst the 50K they’d sampled so far.
Uncle Bob: mocking mocking and testing outcomes →
Bob Martin wrote a great article on the overuse of mocking frameworks.
His position is that whilst they are sometimes useful, they shouldn’t be the hammer with which you hit every nail - which is how they are often presented.
He advocates hand-rolled mocks for the simple cases, and realizing that when this gets painful, you have a code smell re the coupling of the classes in the system...
Recommended Listening: Software Carpentry (great...