Continuing a trend of Mockito related articles, I thought I’d blog about using another feature I recently discovered while trying to figure out how to implement fine grained behavior in mockito. First, let me set the stage… I had a method call I was writing examples for that was a typical Castor marshal operation, which [...]
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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 [...]
Damaged
February 13th, 2008
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Sometimes life has a way of punching you in the gut when you least expect it, irreversibly changing your life forever. This morning I woke up and flipped open my laptop as usual for my morning RSS feed reeding to discover the screen was completely frozen, with the clock stopped at 3:20am… letting me know [...]
My Geek New Years Resolutions
January 12th, 2008
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Of course, my main resolution this year is to undo the 50 to 60 pounds I put on over the course of 2007 (it’s troubling when you increase your pants size by 8 sizes!), but in addition to that I have several goals for 2008 that I hope to accomplish. So, here they are, in [...]
Fear
October 16th, 2007
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Fear is quite obviously the worst emotion that any developer (agile or not) can succumb to… the fear to try new technologies, the fear to try something out, the fear to speak up, etcetera etcetera. The list goes on. In my honest opinion, fear is the one driving force that can break a development team [...]
This is Just Depressing
June 13th, 2006
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This evening I was browsing some of the recent posts on the amsuing thedailywtf.com and was amused by a post that detailed a certain programmer’s predecessor’s trials and tribulations trying to fulfill the requirement to”programmatically send an email in .NET” and the source control log that details the programmer’s frustration of trying to send an [...]
Google Spreadsheet isn’t the first?
June 8th, 2006
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Yesterday I was pretty amazed when I got to take a look at google’s newest web application, an online spreadsheet program. what really interested me though was when I was viewing some blogs I commonly read and I stumbled upon zohosheet, a very cool online spreadsheet program written completely in javascript on the client end [...]
