On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Ashley Moran <[email protected] > wrote:
> > Hi all > > Thanks to everyone that attended, to Will (as always) for organising > it, and to Jamie of Boxedup.com for arranging sponsorship so that > people actually turned up :) > > I've finally corrected the broken slide, and a bit of OCD crept in > correcting some more of the output of the dodgy syntax highlighting > tool I used. I've posted the slides on my blog[1]. > > I'd be interested in feedback if anyone can spare the time. I'm aware > that there were too many slides for the time we had (although, wasn't > expecting to start when we did, or have get to the pizza so early). > And one person commented the text was hard to read at the back, so > I'll have to look at more visible code next time. But I'd like to > know how else I could make presentations better and more useful to the > group. More introductory material? More interactive? Maybe mocking > was too specific a subject, or the examples I gave were not specific > enough? Comments appreciated, and I'll use them to hone anything I do > at NWRUG in future. > > Cheers > Ashley > > [1] > http://aviewfromafar.net/2009/10/17/nwrug-slides-uses-and-abuses-of-mocks-and-stubs > > -- > http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran > http://aviewfromafar.net/ > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks Ashley I've been teaching this to a PHP team in my current role so very useful. I also came across this Martin Fowler thing about the difference between mocks and stubs, where he says that mocks generally allow you to create expectations ans stubs are more about stubbing out behaviour: http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html I can't share my presentation based on PHP's Simpletest because I would be breaking a confidence, unfortunately Thanks and regards, Francis Follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/fjfish Blog at http://www.francisfish.com (you can also buy my books from there!) Skype: fjfish --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
