No blogging…
Everything went to pot over the last couple of weeks. Moving out of the rental property proved to be a mightier than thou task. To top that, our landlord is playing silly buggers with our deposit. I have a meeting with him tonight, but I’m not holding my breath…
So, where does this leave Ruby? Well, [...]
Meta Programming in Ruby - Part One
def warning
This is written by a Java programmer currently learning Ruby. It’s really a note to myself. I’ve found the best way learn something, is to write about it. Please, those in the know, I would appreciate comments on glaring errors and/or omissions…
end
So, there I was happily stepping through the on-line version of Programming Ruby (currently [...]
I spy a Mac
The winds are changing…
Here I am at 05:00 GMT, having uninstalled Napster, researching MacBook Pros, installing the latest iTunes on my windows laptop that irritates me now, playing around with containers in Ruby using the latest nighly build of the Netbeans Ruby IDE (19Mb).
The Netbeans Ruby IDE has intellisense and hover over docs. Two of THE most important development [...]
Ruby - The language of choice?
Okay, I have caught the Ruby bug. It’s like an itch, the more I scratch it, the more it needs to be scratched. Ruby is a great language. That’s a fact. Rails is a great web framework. That’s a fact. Somewhat over-hyped at the moment, but Rails will find it right place soon enough.
However, I’m more [...]
Time to Mingle?
I recently saw a demo of the Thoughtworks product to manage Agile IT projects called Mingle. I must admit that it did look quite impressive and fills a very large gap in the agile project management tool market. I have been road testing a number of products in this space for some time now, more [...]
Testing private classes in Java
When you’re doing test driven development you often run into the issue where you want to test package level classes and/or private/protected/package level methods on classes. So what do you do? Either you open up your design to make them testable or you use JUnitX. Given that I don’t think it is a good idea generally [...]
Eclipse is Good, IntelliJ is Better!
I have not done any serious Java programming for the last year as I’ve been busy with other stuff. Today I installed IntelliJIDEA Version 7.0 Miletone II. After 15 minutes of re-adjustment and getting use to the oh so heavy Java stack again (Spring, Hibernate, Web Frameworks, yada, yada, yada…), it was as if I [...]
