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Gmail adds a delete button! Cats and dogs live in peace!

Hell freezes over! Eclipse and Netbeans users unite! Pigs Fly!

Eclipse tip: always save automatically to stay in the flow

I almost never want to be asked if I want to save an editor window in Eclipse. With the safeguards of version control and local history, there is never a save that cannot be reverted easily. When I’m really in the flow, I want the cycle to be seamless between edit test case, [...]

Naming test objects - mock, stub, fake?

consistent names for “test doubles”

Getting size of collection in JSTL 1.0

Assuming JSTL 1.0, this doesn’t work:
<c:out value=”${myMap.size}” />
and neither does this
<c:set var=”mapSize” value=”${myMap.size}” />
<c: out value=”${mapSize}” />
I’m assuming JSTL wants to find something called getSize()…
So is this the only way to do it?
<%=((java.util.Map) pageContext.findAttribute(”myMap”)).size() %>
(meta note: if I actually get all the HTML escape codes right for this, I will be amazed)

Public Radio Fan

Publicradiofan.com looks like the ultimate resource for the public radio fan. Find every program that is streaming right now from stations around the world. Now there is no excuse for missing This American Life.
via Ron Jeffries

Buncha links for Friday - techie and otherwise

Nerdy

Ruby on Rails cheatsheet, done very nicely as always from ILoveJackDaniels
An idea on test invariants in TDD - basically a way to enforce design by contract using typical TDD + java/C# only - from Martin Fowler.
How Ajax reduced load on MacRumors.com during Jobs presentation on Ajaxian.
Bambi Meets Godzilla - anti-anti-hype and Ruby vs Python

Not nerdy

Hindsights [...]

How to annoy and aggravate your coworkers with CVS!

“Whats the problem?! It compiles, doesn’t it!!”

So if WebWork uses DWR & Dojo, and Struts is becoming WebWork…

So, WebWork 2.2 was just released, which makes heavy use of DWR and Dojo javascript framework. Struts is going to be merging with WebWork as Struts Action Framework. So does that mean that in a couple years everyone running Struts 2.0 will be using (or at least be able to use) Dojo + [...]

Neward’s paper on the OR mismatch and LINQ

Ted Neward recently posted an extensive paper comparing various OR solutions from over the years, including JDBC, SQLJ, and ActiveRecord. Of course, the paper finished up by showing .NET's upcoming solution with LINQ and how it "hopes to take a large step forward in minimizing the object-relational mismatch." It allows you to code [...]

MacBook Pro announced: “4-5x faster than the PowerBook G5″

"Fastest notebook ever."