david a. kolb on experiential learning (tags: learning experiential research) InfoQ: Pulling Power: A New Software Lifespan (tags: bdd business design) Pomodoro Technique Illustrated | PDF Draft (tags: development tips productivity) Pomodoro Technique at Agile2009 (2009-08-25 11am)
Archive for August, 2009
Functional Programming in Javascript
August 31st, 2009
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Just a random, late night scribble for the boys and girls out there starting fresh with javascript and not understanding the power that you can harness with it. I’ve given this demonstration before, but it’s always fun to post because someone might learn something new. Anyway, you might be familiar with your usual function definition, [...]
Dependency Injection is Not Just For Testing!
August 30th, 2009
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Something I have heard in the past is the bemoaning about injecting a dependency just for the sole sake of being able to test the use of that dependency, and while reading email today I saw that someone built a “handy utility” for replacing dependencies without having to make a setter or constructor. While they [...]
links for 2009-08-30
August 30th, 2009
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Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com (tags: business inspiration presentation)
JUnit4 + Mockito + Hamcrest = BDD Goodness
August 21st, 2009
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Been tinkering with the 1.8 release of Mockito and found an interesting new feature: support for a Behavior Driven Development syntax. It’s pretty exciting the readable tests you can create with this new subclass. Here’s a quick example I whipped up during my Mockito presentation today: package org.jamescarr.MockitoDemo.bdd; import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat; import static org.mockito.BDDMockito.given; import [...]
links for 2009-08-18
August 18th, 2009
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Greasemonkey API Reference [Dive Into Greasemonkey] (tags: javascript programming webdev api reference)
links for 2009-08-15
August 15th, 2009
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Stephen's Java Adventures: Writing a Hudson plug-in (Part 4 – Abstract … Configure your IDE to run your tests automatically
