It’s not as though unit testing is completely new to me, but even years after I wrote my first tests, I still consider myself a naive amateur in many regards. I’ve been ramping up my use of tests lately thanks in large part to a technique I read about in Michael Feathers’s book Working [...]

Unit testing is a good idea. Ask any random developer what they think about unit testing and you’re likely to get one of four responses:

I don’t know what they are.
I love them! You should always use them!
I hate them! You should never use them!
I appreciate them, but I’m lazy and don’t use them that much.

Of [...]

Developers who write code inevitably write code that crashes. Luckily for our users, 99% of those crashes happen on our own development machines, and we get the opportunity to fix them before shipping them off to our unsuspecting computers.

But every once in a while even the most polished and refined software exhibits that nastiest of [...]

Our friend Scotty, who is responsible for the Late Night Cocoa podcast, has just expanded his offerings, launching a “network” of Mac developer related podcasts and web content. The second podcast in the lineup is a roundtable format, such as you might hear on such excellent shows at Leo Laporte’s MacBreak Weekly and This [...]