Tim Barcz

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• Exercise Caution When Using Floating Point Numbers

  I understand floating point numbers can be somewhat imprecise but I'm a bit bothered today when I see the following evaluates to false: 1: float f = .16f; 2: double d = .16d; 3:   4: Assert.That(f, Is.EqualTo(d)) Annoyingly I wanted to see what... Posted Nov 05 2008, 02:13 PM by Tim Barcz with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Rant, Help

• Testing Pre-Requisite - Care About Your Code

  There's a lot of posts and chatter about testing, TDD, and a number of other topics on this blog, the larger devlicio.us site, and the .NET community in general.  Before all that, it should go without saying, but it must be said; there is a pre... Posted Oct 02 2008, 09:20 PM by Tim Barcz with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Rant

• Google Chrome - How Cool? Too Cool.

  How cool is Google Chrome (new browser from Google)?  Way cool...like "too cool to run on your machine cool" Thumbs up though for their error screen, just wish I didn't have to see it Posted Sep 02 2008, 02:59 PM by Tim Barcz with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Rant

• The Tortoise and the Hare

  We're all familiar with the Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare . In the story, the hare, who is in every way is faster than the tortoise, loses a race to the tortoise. The main principle of the story is that slow and steady wins the race... Posted Aug 11 2008, 12:13 PM by Tim Barcz with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Rant, Agile, Testing