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 [...]
No Fluff, Plenty Of Stuff
I attended the first European No Fluff, Just Stuff (NFJS)in London today and it was a hoot! Great food. Great people. And plenty of technology around dynamic languages, functional programming, rich internet applications, agile techniques, yada, yada, yada… Thanks to Wendy and crew of SkillsMatter for making it a really enjoyable experience.
Clearly, I have been spending a [...]
Year of the Ruby
Now, I wouldn’t call myself old-fashioned, but tradition is tradition. Every year I commit learning a new (programming) language. This year, is the Year of the Ruby!
I was in my hotel room last night and had 30 minutes to spare. So I googled ‘ruby’ and was not surprised to see that main ruby site http://www.ruby-lang.org is [...]
Agile Customers need Agile Partners
I’ve been looking for an “article” like this for a long time (thanks Seb). It’s funny that it pops up in the gaming industry, but then again gaming is a pretty fluid marketplace.
The article about a company called Remedy Entertainment from Finland that is the maker of Max Payne (and the forthcoming Alan Wake). Remedy are embracing the change [...]
Who is behind Facebook?
In the UK at least, facebook has exploded. At lot of my friends (and not friends ) have started turning up in there. Why? I have no idea. I only registered because I was forced to. I wanted to go out but the organiser put the details on a wall within facebook. How annoying? [...]
The Daily Scrum
Totally in jest, but the reason “Scrum Masters 2” is so funny is that you know you’ve been there. I love it!
This is something you should show your new scrum teams…
