Monthly Archives: July 2008

Devver’s Devvelopers Devvelopment

July 7, 2008 – 3:42 pm

Ever since starting our company Devver, I have found it hard to type the words developers and development. I often just end up typing “devvelopers” and “devvelopment” without even blinking an eye. It is just so nice and easy to throw our extra ‘V’ in those words, it rolls off the tongue, so to speak. [...]

By Dan | Posted in Devver, Misc |

Tips for Testing: Tip #8

July 2, 2008 – 6:46 am

Tip 8: Keep learning!

Just like learning new programming languages makes you a better developer, learning about new testing approaches, libraries, and tools will make you a better tester. The state of the art of testing is changing very rapidly these days - new frameworks and techniques are released almost every month. Keep looking at example [...]

By Ben | Posted in Testing |

Congrats to Filtrbox

July 1, 2008 – 9:04 pm

Filtrbox launched publicly a couple days ago and I just wanted to say congrats. Filtrbox is a TechStars 07 company, that I really didn’t hear or see much of last year. When I first heard what they were doing, I thought, “Yeah I already have Google alerts thanks.” Now Filtrbox has become my favorite of [...]

By Dan | Posted in TechStars | Comments (1)

Tips for Testing: Tip #7

July 1, 2008 – 3:06 pm

Tip 7: Be reasonable
There are lots of reasons why tests are great, but if your practices aren’t ultimately making your code better and you more productive, it’s not worth it. You have to always think about the return on your time investment.
There are domains in which automated testing is very difficult and doesn’t provide a [...]

By Ben | Posted in Testing |