I really enjoy the podcasts, the only thing that I have trouble with is that not all of the links (particularly the ones for the blogs of the people on the podcasts on the right of the screen) are not target=blank, so often while I’m listening to the pod cast, and I click on one of the links, the browser navigates to the new page which stops the pod cast playing, and then I have to go back and try to find where I was in the cast.

Thanks and Keep up the good work.
Rick

There is a specific development methodology called TDD that deals with the particular case of driving the design of your code by writing unit tests first, one at a time, then writing code that will make the test pass. If you aren’t already familiar with it, I’d suggest looking into it and trying it out on your own code.

Here are a few links to get started.

http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html

http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.TheThreeRulesOfTdd

I agree that DNR sets the standard for audio quality. Of course, they have sponsors and a budget which helps in terms of both their recording gear and ability to focus on scheduling guests. I think you’ll find that our audio quality is generally a lot better than it was on this show, though.

Admittedly I’m not a huge unit tester in my personal projects (usually quite small anyway) but that side effect will make me think again in future. I’m really surprised that it isn’t brought up more often in discussion of unit testing.