Refactoring problems

Refactoring without unit tests is a lot like playing that game where you splay your fingers out on a table and then stab the spaces between the fingers as fast as you can with a really sharp knife in your other hand. Writing unit tests for one-off scripts isn’t really worth the effort. Refactoring one-off…

How to fix hockey

Someone (me) has been reading DownGoesBrown during baseball season again. Boo me! On the other hand, here’s another great article. This one talks about how to fix hockey at the NHL level. Can’t say as I disagree with a single suggestion here. Oh, and isn’t it time for hockey season to start yet?

The trouble with Twitter

Just how many Twitter plug ins does any platform need? I think I had three with this WordPress installation. Hopefully we’re down to a more manageable number now.

The right password always helps

So I spent a lot of time with the iPhone WordPress app trying to connect it with this blog and was never successful. Turns out that I’d never “modernized” the password for this account so was using one I used to use when I first went back to WordPress seven years ago. Never bothered to…