I’ve been using HSQLDB for my in memory database testing, but I think its time to find something else. Things have been getting pretty painful lately and I’m wondering what kind of experience others have with the alternatives. My criteria are:
fast
easy to embed in a Java test suite - so basically just drop […]
The No Fluff Just Stuff tour kicked off today. I made it down to Milwaukee in time, despite a frantic search for my keys that ended with finding them in my wife’s jacket (of course). After the registration and intro from Jay, I went over to see Stuart’s talk on Spring Dependancy Injection. […]
I recently set up subversion to complement my cvs repository for version control. I ported all my personal apps over, but one nice benefit I didn’t anticipate was the ability to keep client projects or open source projects in my own repository at the same time.
For instance, I had a project for a client […]
Andy Hunt answers the question a lot of people are asking: Why Ruby?
It stays out of your way
It just works
Ruby’s not perfect, by any means, it’s got dark corners to the language just like every other language. But it has a lot fewer […]
Update: Welcome, Javalobby readers! You might be interested in the followup to this post. Thanks for the great feedback and suggestions.
Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David ThomasThis is absolutely required reading for any software developer, regardless of language. If you are lost when people are talking about “keeping it DRY” or […]
The always thought provoking (if controversial) 37 Signals had a post that resonated with me today on project roadmaps being too constraining. So often I’ve seen the long term goals fall by the wayside as requirements shift and everyone realizes what made sense six months ago just doesn’t make sense anymore. Or you […]
Its pretty exciting to see a JRuby talk accepted at JavaOne 2006. At least someone at Sun gets it about alternative dynamic languages on the JVM. This is at least one good reason to stick around after the Ajax Experience for JavaOne.
This part of the abstract is particularily compelling:
We plan for JRuby to […]
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, […]
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