Lately at work my team has had a small habit of not swapping out enough … the same pairs would sit and work on a project from beginning to completion with little or no swapping. Luckily we started breaking away from this last week, and this week alone I swapped in on several different projects. [...]
Archive for July, 2006
Test Driven Design or Test Driven Development?
July 25th, 2006
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Tim Ottinger of Object Mentor brought up a great point recently on the testdrivendevelopment yahoo mailing list stating that he has noticed that a lot of people doing TDD are doing it more localized, unit tests only (Test Driven Development) rather than starting at a higher level with Acceptance Tests that drive the design / [...]
The USPTO Never Fails to Disappoint
July 12th, 2006
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We always hear those sad sad stories everyday… some company patents something dead obvious then tries top hold an industry hostage over it. It really is sad the kind of patents that the USPTO issues. Of course, the patent holder decided to sue Red Hat, only because they package Hibernate3 with their software. Silly, stupid, [...]
SSH Over Java
July 11th, 2006
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Recently I’ve had the need from java to run a job on a remote server that can take a variable amount of time (anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours) and needed to detect when it is complete and get a file it generated when completed. This was a little challanging at first, [...]
