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A recent post about in-memory database unit testing by Mike Bosch reminded me of a presentation I wrote but never published about developer testing and how to achive 100% test coverage for nasty applications. High test coverage for most parts of an application is easy, for some parts it’s difficult to do. The hard […]

I moved cintoo Messages to JDK 1.5 because of several reasons. I know this will reduce the potential user base, but with Mustang on the horizon, a lot of projects are moving to 1.5 now or in the near feature. Beside I really like generics (being a strong opposer for some years, though IDEA could […]

Those ruby google trenders again. As said before, if everyone is already using Java, noone will search for “Java” in Google ;-)
The search volume is basically the increase in mindshare, not the mindshare. So Java has probably much more mindshare than AND the mindshare is increasing twice as fast. And if you search for […]

In the last 30 years the software stack has grown from year to year. When I started coding in Z80 machine code, there was no software stack. Just the programmer and some hardware registers. No other software involved. Direct access to the machine. From there software stacks grew, to compilers and libraries. With Java the […]

The JRuby team has accomplished an amazing thing, running Ruby on Rails with JRuby. So is Grails dead? No! Why should someone then use Grails and not JRuby on Rails? Ruby is a very nice and clean language, Rails has a lot extensions and documentation. But Groovy is more similiar to Java, like Java on […]

Maven doesn’t find javax.mail, it resides in javax/mail/mail in the repository, shouldn’t that be just javax/mail ?
Update: Yes I know with groupId = javax.mail it works, but shouldn’t that be just javax?
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I have added a XmlResourceBundle to cintoo Messages.
<properties>
<property key=”mykey”>myvalue</property>
</properties>
The greatest benefits with XML are that you can easier use encodings in XML files than in the default Java properties bundles. And you can use XML-based tools for bundle creation and management. The bundle also shows the direction Messages is going. […]

At least all of those as stupid as I am. When developing cintoo Messages I got biten (again!) by the MacOS filesystem not being case sensitive. All tests worked fine but on the integration server (thanks pulse guys for providing your software, it helps) which is running on Linux the tests wouldn’t work. My bundle […]

There is a funny satire demanding rules for RoR comparisons called ‘Six Ground Rules for “Rails Sucks” Articles’. Really funny stuff, go read it. But everyone knows there are only the Queensbury Rules.
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Google trends is a nice idea, and I had to apply it adhoc to Java, Ruby, Python and C#. Interesting results, I can see a decline in Java! We’re doomed :-)
And the Rails evangelists jump in and present this. Probably people would search for that or even that because Rails mostly doesn’t find RoR though. […]