Mar 27 2008
Photoshop online
It had to happen sooner or later, Photoshop Express is online. I’ve been using Picnik for lightweight editing, but Photoshop Express looks like a strong contender.
Archive for March, 2008
Mar 26 2008
Spring config without XML
Spring has been around for quite a while now. I guess most projects still use XML for the config, but with the 2.5 release that will probably change. Alef Arendsen has a blogpost with links to a lot of resources about the new features, and upcoming ones.
Update: Spring JavaConfig M3 is released.
Mar 13 2008
Spring Batch concepts
I’m mostly doing batch these days, so I’m keeping an eye out for what’s happening with Spring Batch. It does have a lot of concepts that resemble what our home grown framework is built around, so I can relate to a lot of it. The same reason will also hopefully make us able to migrate [...]
Mar 13 2008
Multiple teams and source
For quite a while now I have been spending way too much mind capacity on how to handle source when it comes to team-dependencies, library dependencies and database dependencies. There is certainly not a one size fits all solution out there, but Henrik Kniberg has a good introduction to the mailine model for handling source [...]
Mar 06 2008
GUTs and BUTs
Alright, so it’s a cheap one, but I had to do it. Alistair Cockburn coined the term GUTs – Good Unit Tests in a blog entry. Having a term for it was a bit of an eye opener.
I do TDD, but it’s not always the way I do stuff so I’m not religious [...]
Mar 03 2008
Database migrations
I was originally looking for a way to organize our db-scripts so we could do a full drop and recreate before running tests, or deploying a new version. One of the main disadvantages to this is that test data will get lost. By separating the scripts you can still maintain upgrade scripts for when you [...]