David's blog

Err and err and err but less and less and less

David's blog

Err and err and err but less and less and less

Month: February 2009

Trends in Smart Buildings Meeting, January 2009

I just realized how late I was with a summary of our last Trends meeting, which we held on Tuesday January 27th at LESO. So here follow my distant recollections of the event. There were only three of us this time, but David was so kind as to give us a nice demo of the […]

WordPress shortcode for syntax highlighting

There’s a nice feature in WordPress for including source code in your blog posts, but the Codex is not crystal-clear on how to activate it. According to this article, for example, all you have to do is to insert a shortcode tag and anything that goes inside that tag will be automatically formatted. But when […]

A unit test that Could. Not. Fail. (but did)

I am now convinced that even the most trivial pieces of code must be unit-tested. Recently I’ve been working on a Java implementation of a building thermal model. A textbook model with thermal nodes and thermal capacities and conductances between them. This is supposed to eventually become part of a generic testing harness for home […]

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