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Comment on Android Stock Quote Application by amar647

amar647 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:50:22 +0000

Seems like Google has put out its own free client.
http://www.android.com/market/free-finance.html#app=finance

Comment on Android v/s iPhone by amar647

amar647 — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:14:15 +0000

Thanks for your feedback.

Comment on Android Stock Quote Application by Forex Trading

Forex Trading — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:24:10 +0000

I will be linking back I really like your site keep up the good work.

Comment on Complex Programs with Simple code? by amar647

amar647 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:04:17 +0000

Thanks for the insight Alex. Fully agree with your thoughts on TDD. I am hoping to use TDD for the remaining rules that i write.

Comment on Complex Programs with Simple code? by Alex Rothenberg

Alex Rothenberg — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:05:53 +0000

I think you’re right on the money thinking you can follow this 10 lines per method rule. Reading your code it’s fairly easy to understand and I like how you’ve named your sub-methods with very descriptive names (i.e. inside “isCheckMate” you call “isKingUnderCheck” “isAttackingSquareTakeoverPossible” and “isKingMovable”.

I have found when writing my own code that not only is it possible to write code this way but when you follow TDD its actually easier. Each test I write usually forces me to write only a few lines and at most one IF statement. The only code I’ve writting in the past 6 months that does not look like this is when I’ve “forgotten” to follow TDD. I’ve found that when I nest logic (if statements or loops) and then try to write tests I realize the number of possible scenarios to test has exploded. So I go back and refactor it to look more like what you have and give myself a slap on the write to do TDD the next time.

Comment on Playing around with Greasemonkey by amar647

amar647 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:21:10 +0000

Thanks for that piece of information

Comment on Playing around with Greasemonkey by Amit Phadke

Amit Phadke — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:20:21 +0000

Hey Amar,
Thanks for the insight I did not think about it in that sense.
Also, just found out that even IE and safari have Greasemonkey equivalent which can run these same GM script, thought you might find it interesting.

Comment on Playing around with Greasemonkey by amar647

amar647 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:31:48 +0000

Hi Amit,
Welcome to my blog. Not sure if i understand your question. Do you mean ‘why not put a webpage for the custom homepage’? If yes, then what that would require is a hosting server (which not everyone will have). If its done on the client side, then everyone with a firefox browser and greasemonkey plugin(free of cost, easy to obtain) would be able to customize their own homepage (provided they can script to their needs or use one of the pre-existing user scripts), Who know maybe one day there will be a tool available to spit out greasemonkey like scripts using drag and drop operations.

Thanks,
Amar

Comment on Playing around with Greasemonkey by Amit Phadke

Amit Phadke — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:28:18 +0000

Why not put a webpage for it? Will work for other browsers too unless you are just trying out grease monkey

Comment on Goa, Lonavla by amar647

amar647 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:16:37 +0000

I just tried this url->http://amarphadke.com/?page_id=17 and it seems to be working. Can you pls try again?
Thanks,
Amar