Archive for the 'Productivity' Category
JUnit recipes: Work around static attributes in classes
7 Comments Published August 24th, 2007 in Java, Productivity, Software developmentBeware of the class loader. I recently had a major testing problem with some code because I didn’t take the (sometimes ugly) Java class loading mechanism into account. There was a small class where I wanted to unit test the calculateAge method.
class AgeCalculator {
public int calculateAge(Person person) {
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Bought VMWare Fusion after Parallels
0 Comments Published August 14th, 2007 in General, ProductivityI’ve switched! After using Parallels for some time to run Windows applications I’ve tried the VMWare Beta. And I was astonished how polished the Beta already was. It felt much more stable and professional than Parallels. And when with Parallels I had troubles even after I upgraded to 2gb of memory and it captured 100% […]
Grails more productive than Rails
5 Comments Published August 2nd, 2007 in Groovy and Grails, Productivity, Rails, Seam, Software developmentCatchy title. But the guys from ALTERthought have some - much needed - numbers. Their numbers show Grails to be more productive than Rails, which is in turn more productive than Spring and pure JEE. As I’ve argued for years, there is no science in computer science. We need to put facts back into computer […]
