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Tag Archives: Java
I’ll be speaking next Tuesday evening for SD Forum in Palo Atlo about Spring MVC. It’s mostly an introductory talk, but I’ll weave in some opinions and lessons learned from real projects. I’ll cover many of the MVC features, including … Continue reading
I’ve written a maven plugin to integrate Screw.Unit javascript tests into a maven build. The project is inspired by the Blue Ridge testing framework for Rails, but it’s a bit more light-weight by design.
The latest release of the Carbon Five Database Migration maven plugin supports a new goal: check. The check goal fails the build if the database isn’t up to date. That is, if there are pending migrations the plugin produces a … Continue reading
Both Carbon Five and my ISP have moved email management over to Gmail. While this has been a net improvement for me as an end user, it’s made it a bit more difficult to configure my applications to send outgoing … Continue reading
We’re always looking for new ways to test our applications and we’ve been trying a few new things on our projects. One of the recent additions is a JUnit test runner designed to help make writing and running functional tests … Continue reading
Updated: Added links to presentation and source code. I’ll be down in Palo Alto speaking about Automated Web Application Testing Tuesday October 6th. If you’re interest in getting a peek at the typical Carbon Five Java web architecture along with … Continue reading
Our client SmartyCard launched in early March at the DEMO conference picking up the People’s Choice Award. SmartyCard is a learning site that offers kids rewards for completing a variety of interactive learning games. Kids are able to ‘learn, earn … Continue reading
We’re wrapping up a project that I’ve been leading since September and I’ve been reflecting on some of my decisions. Some of this reflection might be interesting to other developers. There are a few things on my mind, but I’ll … Continue reading
I’ve written about Java 5 concurrency in the past and I’ve recently had the opportunity to make use of another one of the concurrency constructs: the BlockingQueue. The Problem There’s a problem we’ve seen a few times in the last … Continue reading
Many of our projects are ‘greenfield’ and we have the opportunity to do things the way we like. By working on new projects every few months, as opposed to one project over the course of years, we have lots of … Continue reading