Committing unlawful acts one month, Premier elect the next.
The NSW Government has imploded and is no longer capable of governing this state. It’s time for the Governor of NSW to stand up for the people of NSW. If this is all we have left to run the state then it’s time to sack the government.
After reading Pia’s post about opening up government data I went back to a post I made the day the NSW Government announced that it was opening up government data. That was the 4th September. We were promised that a trial feed was being tested and a full feed would be opened on 21st Septemer. It’s now 15th October (nearly a month after the feed should have started) and the one government dataset covering NSW comes from the Commonwealth Government.
Where’s the data Nathan?
Let’s be honest. The Commonwealth Government has started to open access to data. So have other states. The NSW Government has simply extended it’s policy of making grand announcements with no intention of following through. If there really is data available then put it in your data catalogue so we can find it!?!? I guess they’ll re-announce this every 12 months in between announcing yet another rail line that won’t be built.
I just read a post asking if my unit test take too long. In it the author suggests that 5 minutes is long and asks if anyone has solved this problem. This reminded me of a discussion I had with some developers about 12 months ago about unit testing in which my argument was simply that unit tests need to be comprehensive and not necessarily quick.
There are many projects where the unit tests take several hours to run. This shouldn’t matter during development when you’re probably only interested in a few unit tests as most test tools provide a way to filter the tests that are run. You only need to run the entire test suite prior to committing or during continuous integration.
Having said all of that I can recommend using memory tables if your database supports them. The operations are generally a lot faster as the database doesn’t need to write to disk.
Congratulations to Stephen Conroy and Australian Government on your most recent award. It’s just a guess but I don’t think they’ll be promoting this at the next election.
Congratulations to comrade Rudd & the ALP on the inspired move of declaring themselves the winner of their own tender without even bidding. I’m sure that will teach pesky ISP’s who dare to stand up for their customers or challenge your infinite wisdom about Internet censorship. Now you have the perfect way to filter out all those unwanted nasties including:
Feel free to flame me if you disagree.
