Reality-Loop

  • July 01, 2009

    NetBeans Showstopper: Running Tests

    Update 2009-07-02: Adam Bien has some related info here, but this still does not solve my issues (easily running single test methods, failing JUnit tests in maven projects, crappy TestNG integration in maven projects) Basically I like NetBeans...

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  • June 30, 2009

    Maturity of DSLs as a concept

    I like the following quote from Jay Field's screencast The 5 Ws of DSLs: The DSL movement is in a stage that is similar to the stage of OO before Design Patterns were documented. - Jay Fields, InfoQ The concepts for DSLs are slowly being flesh...

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  • June 29, 2009

    Programming humor continued: Airlines

    Thanks Stefan for pointing me to this: If Programming Languages ran the Airlines and not as funny as the above: If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines... This post joins the ranks of hilarious episodes of programming humor: A Brief...

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  • June 25, 2009

    Restarting the embedded OpenEJB container between each test

    If you are looking for an embeddable EJB3 Container for your unit-tests/integration-tests, OpenEJB is currently the most mature solution (alternatives are embedded Glassfish and JBoss embedded). The documentation and the samples of OpenEJB are r...

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  • June 24, 2009

    Raising the Level of Abstraction

    Abstraction is a central concept in software development. Abstraction is probably our only hope to conquer the ever rising complexity and requirements in current and future systems. When designing a software system today often there are no ph...

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