Erik Zaadi

The tales of a developer with passion for dad jokes

Recent Posts

Personal Web Nostalgy My fiance happened to googlestubmle upon this site: http://my.ort.org.il/rehovot/thing/ It’s the first “official” web site I created back in high school, using FrontPage (!). I find it rather ironic that the “It will be ready in a week.” status is still there :) Viewing the (hideous) source, you see plenty of unneeded tables, countless in-line styling and javascript.. Well, needless to say, IE4 was targeted as the default browser.. Here’s a small snippet used for achieving a mouseover image swap:
New Blog Layout Finally got my custom template up and running.. Went from this : To the one you are[no longer] seeing now.. There are a lot of good resources out there about how to customize your blog. Furthermore, there are plenty of nice widgets and templates, saving you both time and effort. Instead of using these prebuilt resources, I wanted to learn a bit more, mainly about the Blogger API’s and capabilities, and of course enjoy some jQuery action.
Getting Started with Test Driven Development I’ve been to wanting to learn and use Test Driven Development for quite some time now. I’ve read tons of blogs, even a really nice free ebook (see here). Unlike other new (to me) frameworks and technologies that I’ve been interested in before, I find starting to use and implementing TDD extremely hard. It just didn’t feel right. At first I thought, well, this might simply not be my cup of tea, but then it got me thinking, why would that be so?
First post Ok, here goes the first post.. My name is Erik, and I’ll be blogging about … well I don’t know yet. I guess most of my posts will be about programming, and my attempts to becoming a better programmer.. One of the thing’s I enjoy the most is learning new things that I find helpful. Through this blog I hope to be able to share such useful information with you…