Being Cellfish

I recently had a chance to really sink my teeth into xUnit.net . Since I've been stuck with CPPUnit for quite some time and working with xUnit.net was a relief. Compared to NUnit I find xUnit much easier and convenient to work with (and compared with Read More...

I recently described how you can create your own usleep method when there isn't one to use. one thing that people however tend to forget is that the sleep methods (sleep, usleep, nanosleep) only guarantees that the calling thread will be suspended for Read More...

I didn't have the opportunity to attend the recent Agile 2008 conference in Toronto but I attended a summary presentation a few weeks ago. These are the key points that excited me. Celebrate your failures! People typically feel bad when they fail at something. Read More...

On windows you have a problem you typically never encounter on Unix. That is how to get a thread to sleep for less than one millisecond. On Unix you typically have a number of choices (sleep, usleep and nanosleep) to fit your needs. On windows however Read More...

There seems to be a lot of myths around the interview procedure at Microsoft. I had my interview a little more than a year ago and coming from Sweden it was a big difference to have the interview in the US. The interview is (as described in the myths) Read More...