Agile and Programming
Jan 16 2009
A while back I was trying to do some initial tries at Ruby as a scripting language with JRuby. That means that I had a Java system, but needed to do some util scripting for the system, and wanted to avoid those pesky bash scripts. Because I had a Java system and Maven infrastructure in [...]
Jan 03 2009
If you are familiar with Ruby on Rails you know what Migrations are. The same thing can and should be done in Java, it’s just not that well known.
Why migrations? Because it enables you to automatically update any environment you have to the latest version. And this is done through source control closely tied to [...]
Jan 03 2009
Ferris sent me a message a little while back and asked if I had any input on handling databases, so it gave me a reason to sit down and try to write something about my experiences. I’m not too happy about the flow of these articles, but I figured it was better to get something [...]
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 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 [...]
Oct 12 2008
I’ve looked into some of the regexp plug-ins for Eclipse today, and QuickREx is, in my opinion, the best one out there.
If you have other favourites, please inform me:-)
The contributors to this project has also implemented a plug-in for developing XPath expressions.
Sep 18 2008
So JavaZone 2008 is over. Had a blast, and saw lots of cool stuff. It was a bit crowded some times, and a bit too many talks was full, but all in all good. Just a short summary for on the good stuff:
Heidi Arnesen Austlid on Open Source in the public sector – The government [...]
Sep 06 2008
It seems like Facebok is pretty agile in how it handles new features and roll outs. According to an article on the High Scalability site they actually do major releases every week. One of the things that struck me was this:
Be Innovative, Not Safe. Fear of failure often shuts down the organizational brain and makes [...]
Sep 01 2008
A quote of a quote in a InfoQ article on the release of GWT 1.5:
Key point: GWT gives you a lot of leverage, but it isn’t intended to be a “walled garden” in any way. Abstractions always leak, so it’s better to embrace that fact. We intentionally make it easy for you to punch through [...]
