21st Century JavaScript

Sat 12 March 2011 by Jim Purbrick

The slides and video of my talk at AsyncJS on Thursday are now online. The video is pretty murky, but the sound has come out fine and you can see enough of the slides to be able to follow along at home. The talk focuses on ways to bring useful software engineering patterns to JavaScript, patterns that will be increasingly important as JavaScript applications become larger and more complex.

Thanks to Prem for inviting me to talk and to everyone who came along to the Async session for the fascinating discussion.


The Why and How of Automated Testing with Python and Django

Thu 04 November 2010 by Jim Purbrick

Jamie has just uploaded the movie of my talk “The Why and How of Automated Testing with Python and Django” which I gave at BrightonPy a week ago (and this time it really is a movie, clocking in at a feature length 1 hr and 35 minutes). The audio on …

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m0cxx0r - Compiler Generated Mock Objects For C++

Sun 26 October 2008 by Jim Purbrick

A few weeks ago at JAOO I felt insanely jealous while watching Erik Doernenburg demo Mockito: I wanted dynamic mock objects in C++. It turns out that it’s really hard. However, after a few days hacking around I found that it’s not completely impossible. The results of my …

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