June 2010
19 posts
Oops last two got put on the wrong blog...
Oh well, not too inflamatory
The Transparent Society →
Penn Juilette's new podcast →
Most recent has a good idea that feeds from all camera’s put up by the government should be available to everyone. The 2nd amendment needs to be extended beyond ‘Arms’.
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HTML 5 Rocks! →
Great site showcasing some exciting new features in HTML5. I hope Apple and Chrome’s combined weight can push it through quicker. Hopefully we don’t need to wait until 2018 when IE10 is adopted in our organization!
Functional Managers Acting as Scrum Masters: Not a... →
Netbeans 6.9 is out! →
I’ll have to play around with JavaFx more now.
Hibernate 3 Annotations Tutorial →
Annotations are great in Hibernate. I try to avoid XML mappings since the annotations work so well.
from Daily WTF, this one really make's me grateful →
Sometimes there is stuff on there that acts like a Jerry Springer show. You just have to look at it to make you realize you don’t have it too bad.
Cool tool for mockups in the abstract →
Great 'Agile Quote'
“In discussing company growth and the frequent imposition of ‘professional management’ to control that growth, (Jim) Collins says, ‘The company begins to hire MBAs and seasoned executives from the blue-chip companies. Processes, procedures, checklists, and all the rest begin to sprout up like weeds. What was once an egalitarian environment gets replaced with a...
A handy jdbc util, I hope, for allowing you to set...
package edu.mayo.lpea.lsa.ren;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
/**
* This will go through a given statement such as select * from x where x.dog = ? and allows you to set the value
* by the key x.dog instead of by index....
The Zen of Scrum →
This is a great presentation for introducing Scrum.
Reading "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided...
This is a great book. Written well and has a good perspective on unit tests. Instead of just showing you how to test well designed software it shows you have to create a good, testable design.
http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Object-Oriented-Software-Guided-Tests/dp/0321503627
Don’t build software that’s TOO smart! →
This is a great post saying “keep it simple, stupid”. Easier said than done.
Wow PowerPoint 2010 is a BIG improvement (at least... →
Great discussion on improving code quality →
Walkscore is a cool site. My address stinks! →
FaceContext and testing
I am baffled that the JSF designers introduced the FacesContext singleton anti-pattern. It makes testing Faces so difficult. Here is a way that I found to circumvent and allow testing. This allows you explicitly set a Mock FacesContext if you wish for testing purposes.
You can do it class-by-class or provide an abstract base class.
public abstract class FacesContextAware{
private...
Great series of posts on design patterns, a quick... →
