Running around in the maze
Dec 27 2008
Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post on the O’Reilly Radar where he references some discussions they have had when it comes to learning, and in particular learning to program.
In essence it requires practice, and we need to work hard at it. There is however a bit of a paradox here. If you are going to [...]
Dec 20 2008
As of january 2009 I’m moving on from BBS which has been my current employer.
It has been a difficult decison I really struggled with. BBS is both a good employer as well as a incredibly interesting place to be. The people, products and technologies are at the front of development in the banking sector in [...]
Dec 18 2008
The norwegian department of renewal and administration has released an open source solution for managing travel expenses (english translation). This is an interesting event and I hope and think that it is a practice that will be followed in the future.
No doubt, I think it is a terrifying experience for most developers to have to [...]
Dec 12 2008
This is probably fairly well known, but I couldn’t find any doc on it when I searched so I’ll put it up here.
First off: Don’t load your Spring Context in your tests unless you absolutely have to. Some integration tests should load it, but keep it to a minimum. Loading the context is expensive, especially [...]
Dec 05 2008
This post from Greg Wilkins suggests moving Jetty to the Eclipse foundation. There is a tiny risk that such a move would make everything more bureaucratic, but I think it will be a good decision if they decide to do it. It will increase the attention, and the Eclipse brand will make it a bit [...]
Dec 02 2008
Smidig2008 is the Norwegian agile conference. Completely organized by volunteers and excellent content. I was lucky enough to participate this year, but still have some talks I missed. I’ll be sure to check them out. You can find a list of best rated talks here.
You can see the entire list at: http://smidig2008.confreaks.com/ .
Dec 02 2008
This is a pattern I’ve seen in many hosting situations, and ended up debating a little while back. It’s the one-DNS-name-for-a-machine-and-lots-of-services-on-it pattern. Among the services is typically a SubVersion repository, Maven repository, Maven proxy, Hudson, Wiki and and maybe some other stuff you use when developing. When migrating to new hardware the discussion [...]
Dec 01 2008
I read this post about Clover and using it to minimise the number of tests run. A nice idea, so I decided to have a go at it.
What it does is use the test-coverage that it was originally written to do, to figure out which tests exercise which classes. So when you change Class1 and [...]