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Cucumber-jvm for Java 13 Apr 2012 | 07:25 am
In an earlier article I compared cucumber (with Cuke4Duke) and Concordion. It was very cumbersome due to the ruby/jruby jvm chain. Behold – the new cucumber-jvm was released. So how did it improve? C...
One assert per test, really. 15 Jun 2011 | 08:41 am
Recently I was debugging my code and I could not see why my test was failing. It took me about 20 minutes to see that I violated one rule I try to follow. One assert per test. After tweeting it I got...
Hello again. 10 May 2011 | 09:12 am
My former hoster had a system crash and it took a while to get an older backup working. Some posts are lost. Here I am. Thanks for the patience. Things still might be a little messy but I’m working...
Spring 3 MVC, Ajax and jQuery Magic (or better: simplicity) 20 Jul 2010 | 04:00 pm
I’m playing around with some web frameworks lately and to see what’s in store with Spring 3 MVC (never did too much with it) I gave it a try to see how it handles Ajax. According to ajax simplificatio...
Busy Programmers Guide on where to buy eBooks 6 Jun 2010 | 09:00 am
Every Programmer needs to read books. Usually you would get some packages from Amazon (or your favorite retailer) and read through them. Now with devices like the Kindle and iPad (and Nook and…) thin...
How to detect if your server is down when making jQuery Ajax calls 27 Apr 2010 | 07:19 am
If you developed an ajax rich web application, maybe even a single page interface, you want to make sure that the user gets notified if the server is not reachable anymore. This happens either if the ...
Lightweight Web Prototyping for the Framework loving (Java) Developer 21 Apr 2010 | 01:00 am
A couple of month ago I had an idea for a small web app. But what does it take to do it ? Do you start with the back end or the front end (read server or client side) ? Typically I would start at the ...
How we switched from Subversion to Git 23 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am
So I heard about these strange distributed version control systems like over a year ago. I used it in my own little projects and everything went smoothly and I really liked it. The idea also caught o...
5 code metrics you need to watch 24 Feb 2010 | 03:00 am
Developing software ain’t easy. How do you know how you are doing ? You could start collecting metrics about your code. These can give you some indication how maintainable and reliable it ...
Name your objects right 10 Feb 2010 | 04:00 am
Whenever you create an object you have to find a meaningful name. While renaming later in modern IDE’s is no problem at all you should not pick the first name which comes to your mind. Imagine you h...
