The next 10,000 hours

Well, having played with CoffeeScript for a few days, I think it’s a wonderful thing – but for the moment, at least, I’m going back to JavaScript, with some regret.

I’ve been fiddling with Coffeescript, a nifty language for writing Javascript – well, really it’s more like a pre-compiler than a language; it compiles directly to readable javascript (including comments!) and generally one Coffeescript statement produces one javascript statement.
So why would you use it? Because it bypasses some of the horribleness of Javascript syntax, [...]

This isn’t particularly new – I wrote this code a while ago, but it never got “finished” so I never wrote it up…
Many agile dev teams use Delcom USB build lights:
http://delcomproducts.com/productdetails.asp?productnum=804005
Coding for these is apparently quite complex… unless you are on a recent-ish Linux machine, in which case it’s amazingly trivial.

[Please note - if you are familiar with BDD, Cucumber, or Selenium, parts of this may be a tad basic - but I thought it was worth writing a from-scratch guide for those to whom this is unfamiliar territory...]
What is Behaviour Driven Development?
BDD is a new-ish term used as a contrast to Test Driven Development [...]

Well, I’ve been reading again (always a bad move) – first Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, which talks about the 10,000 hour rule.  He theorises that to truly master something, you need to spend 10,000 hours practising it.
I’m an old-school geek – I started coding in year 7 on my sister’s university account, in Basic; and [...]