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Io Language: adding slots to messages
Week 2 of the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book is about the Io Language. Day 3 is more specifically on how the flow of control (how messages are passed to an object or to its parent) can be hijacked … Continue reading
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Create hidden files in Apache VFS with the RAM filesystem type
Apache VFS is a great way to access different file systems in the same way. I particularly like the custom RAM filesystem in my unit tests in order to check code that eventually accesses the actual file system. For example: … Continue reading
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Cleaning up test code
My former colleague David just posted an example of verbose test code on his blog (the parts in French have been translated to English by myself): /** * */ @Test public void testGetCustomerOK() { LOGGER.info(“======= testGetCustomerOK starting…”); try { CustomerDTO … Continue reading
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More data on productivity of small teams
“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”. The so-called Brooks’s Law on productivity of software project is well known, since Fred Brooks’ seminal work The Mythical Man-Month, first published in 1975. That is one of the reasons … Continue reading
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Worse than static methods or final classes?
Do you know what’s worse that static methods or classes marked as final? I’ll tell you what’s worse: static methods that return final classes. That only provides private constructors. Here I was, merrily testing my way through a piece of … Continue reading
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I avoid method variables in my test methods
Here is a typical example of a test method @Test public void should_search_by_path() { Searcher searcher = new Searcher(); Path location = new Path(“somewhere”); String data = “data”; searcher.putAt(data, location); assertThat(searcher.findAt(location), is(data)); } It seems that many developers consider this … Continue reading
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Java’s varargs are for unit tests
At Devoxx last week, Joshua Bloch argued during his talk “The Evolution of Java: Past, Present, and Future” that varargs are only “somewhat useful”. I think he is overlooking some usages, particularly in tests. Here is my case. A reminder … Continue reading
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Play Framework and Guice: use providers in Guice modules
Play Framework has a Guice module. Unfortunately, its use is fairly limited compared to what Guice can do. In this post, I describe how it is configured on my current personal project. In general, when I test classes that have … Continue reading
CITCON London 2010
I’m returning from CITCON London 2010. What a great conference (and I’m not just saying that just because I helped organize it)! In fact, I feel it has been the best CITCON so far. I was a bit afraid of … Continue reading
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Why aren’t there more Agile luminaries developing and selling software?
Have you noticed that few Agile luminaries earn a living from writing and selling software? Many do write code as consultants. Other are respected authors of non-commercial open-source development tools. Some do work for software companies such as RallyDev or … Continue reading
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How to use LogMeIn under Linux
For my Remote Pair Programming session with Alexandru Bolboaca, I wanted to work on our actual code, not toy programs. It was hard finding a technical solution to allow this (despite the many suggestions I received on Twitter; the biggest … Continue reading
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How we use Git at Algodeal
I’ve talked recently with the CTO of a small-but-successful company, trying to explain how we do software development. I realized that many things are difficult for them to copy from us, mostly because we have a different approach to implementing … Continue reading
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Bob Martin on TDD in Clojure
Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin has just blogged on the differences in TDD styles using Clojure, as compared to more traditional languages such as Java. Though I am a Clojure-newbie, I mostly disagree with his conclusions. His main point is that, … Continue reading
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AppArmor: how to fix the Create New User issue with logprof
We have started to use AppArmor as a way to strengthen the security on our platform. A reasonably good tool for which you can find rather straightforward tutorials. Portrait of a young woman dressed as Boadecia or Mother England by … Continue reading
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Predictions for CITCON Europe 2009
Last year, at CITCON Amsterdam 2008, a few of us stayed late into the night, drinking beer and discussing the state of the world. And what to do when you have 21 geeks with time on their hands? Why, predictions, … Continue reading
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