Spedge

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bio	website	spedge.com
	location	Scotland, United Kingdom
	age	28
visits	member for	2 years, 6 months
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I'm a Software Developer who just loves to code, even when not working I'm always playing with the newest technologies and learning. I'm now working on BlackBerry apps, but only just got into that dimension of crazyness so am doing more asking than replying to questions :)

I've previously been a Source Control Administrator (damn you ClearCase!), and have done extra-curricular consultancy work which has taken me into Virtual Basic, Google Web Toolkit and all sorts of things.

Oh, and I'm just back from travelling the world with my girlfriend - it's surprising how much downtime you have (argh, Airports) and how much you can do with a netbook!

	288 reputation	bio	website	spedge.com	visits	member for	2 years, 6 months
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Aug 9	answered	How to inspire an intern with programming?
Aug 9	comment	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? Superb suggestion about the versions of the schema! This is exactly the sort of thing I'd be keen on.
Aug 9	comment	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? Smells to me like you have a better perspective on the full cycle, rather than a through-and-through developer :)
Aug 9	comment	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? I agree that procedure and policy have their place, but people can make mistakes. Several people can make mistakes. Assumptions are made, assurances are given without full knowledge of the situation etc. Is there not room for a technical solution within the code that checks assumptions about configuration are correct - allowing the users / operators of the solution to move on and focus on the more corner case possibilities for a problem?
Aug 9	awarded	Commentator
Aug 9	comment	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? @Telastyn Don't you think most of these cons - other than the security concern - can be applied to unit tests?
Aug 9	comment	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? An interesting suggestion @FrustratedWithFormsDesigner and it's one I'll look into. My only problem with that is it's an external application - but if it's looking at internal logs, then it might be good enough.
Aug 8	awarded	Yearling
Aug 8	comment	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? "And really, how are the post-deploy checks going to save your system once you've broken it?" Heh, a good point :) But it's more that you can confirm that things have gone well before you start allowing users onto the system.
Aug 8	comment	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? So humor me. Why is it totally outside the realms of possibility that you'd like, as a developer, to allow your testers to confirm the status of an application before they start functionally testing? Or to allow your support staff to check quickly that the system is functioning as expected? We already create Unit Tests to improve the faith a developer has in his application - why can't we extend that so that our users (internal or external) can have the same faith?
Aug 8	comment	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? I was hoping for a more technical solution than a people-learning solution :S
Aug 8	awarded	Student
Aug 8	comment	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? I'll say hypothetical...
Aug 8	awarded	Editor
Aug 8	comment	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? @RobertHarvey I've added an example to perhaps help with what I'm trying to ask in my question.
Aug 8	revised	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application? modified to make it a bit more "programming-y"
Aug 8	asked	Is there much thought towards internal diagnosis testing within an enterprise application?
Mar 13	answered	How do I review my own code?
Aug 12	awarded	Critic
Apr 12	comment	How can we reduce downtime at the end of an iteration? Because believe me, when the sprints require you work late - you'll work late :)