Monthly Archives: March 2007

Agile seminar with Valtech on April, 26th

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

My employer is hosting a half-day seminar on Agile methodologies. Speakers include David Gageot and Greg Hutchings, so it’s bound to be an interesting morning. We will also hear people from Odyssey, reporting on their experience with an offshore environment. … Continue reading →

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Limitations when using DbUnit in multi-schema environment

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

DbUnit has a useful feature when using multiple schemas. After setting a property called http://www.dbunit.org/features/qualifiedTableNames, DbUnit will always refer to a fully qualified table name, using the schema in prefix, as expected. However, it has the side-effect that the schema … Continue reading →

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Change signature of interface methods in implementations

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Every once in a while, I learn a new fact that reminds me to stay humble with my knowledge of Java.

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Sadek is at QCon

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

My colleague Sadek Drobi is currently attending the QCon conference in London. Check out his blog, starting from March 14th.

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Maven Surefire 2.3 released with support for JUnit 4

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Surefire 2.3 for Maven has been released March 1st. No big announcements, just a post on the maven mailing list. Still, it is a big deal for me, as I can at last run my JUnit 4 tests with Maven.

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Gienah: inject Spring dependencies in your JUnit 4 tests

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I wanted a way of using my test with dependencies coming from my Spring definition.

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YAGNI — You’re Aren’t Gonna Need It

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

A couple of weeks ago, I started working on the objects that needed to be mapped onto the database. As I didn’t know what to do with each of them, I tried to keep things simple by mapping a foreign … Continue reading →

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Hiring Tips

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Every once in a while, I stumble upon a new list of tips to hiring someone. Since I am actively involved in interviewing candidates technically, I always read them in detail. If you don’t know them already, here they are … Continue reading →

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CITCON Dallas/Fort Worth April 27-28

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Paul Julius and Jeffrey Fredricks have announced CITCON D/FW 2007. It is the third in a series where CITCON London 2006 was number 2. Considering how enjoyable CITCON London was, it is totally worth going to CITCON D/FW if you’re … Continue reading →

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