My business partner, Jerry, and I are presenting a full day session on AngularJS to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on Saturday, June 21st 2014. Should be fun! Check out this link for more information. The code for this seminar is here. NOTE: To make this code easy to execute and try out, […]
June 18, 2014
JavaScript Function Terminology
I have been working on and off with JavaScript since 2001. But its one thing to use JavaScript functions and another thing entirely to know the vocabulary of JavaScript functions. So here are some common JavaScript function terms: Function Declaration Defines a named function. function onClick(buttonName) { return “Clicked: ” + buttonName; } Calling: […]
June 4, 2014
"I Don’t Have Time for Unit Testing!"
So, be honest, when you hear someone talk about unit testing … what is your first thought? Is it: “I just don’t have the time to do unit testing”! Or “Our management will never approve the time for unit testing”? Or something similar? Let’s look at what unit testing can do for you: Save you […]
Code Quality and Automated Code Testing
I’ve heard it said that the top three techniques for improving code quality are: Unit testing Unit testing Unit testing There is no better defense for the quality of your code than a set of automated code tests. Automated code testing involves exercising code and testing its behavior by writing more code. So you have […]