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Being objective about web frameworks
August 21, 2009 - 9:39 pm
Posted in Groovy/Grails, ProfessionalStuff, SoftwareDev | No comments
A lot of times ‘Java people’ dismiss RoR and other non-Java web frameworks (and vice versa) without even taking an objective look at them. The author of this post makes some good arguments for staying open minded about web frameworks.
Finding Celerity
February 15, 2009 - 9:01 pm
Posted in Agile, OpenSource, SoftwareDev, code | 1 comment
This weekend I wanted to get ahead on one of my tasks at work, which was to write some Watir scripts that would help us do a small load test on a new application we have and the server infrastructure on which it lives. I got the Watir scripts working generically but wanted to [...]
It’s Alive!!!… the build server, that is.
January 1, 2009 - 11:11 pm
Posted in Agile, OpenSource, SoftwareDev, code | 4 comments
We were finally able to procure a build server so I spent some time over the last few days setting up Hudson for the first time. For the first project I used one of the projects we already have setup for automated building with ANT. I added the following ANT tasks and Hudson plugins: Checkstyle, [...]
Messing with Selenium and Watir
November 11, 2008 - 9:14 pm
Posted in Agile, OpenSource, SoftwareDev, code, java | 1 comment
Wow… long time since I posted. We have an application that is getting ready to go live for the customers of my customers and I wanted to do some load testing of the solution. The application was written by a contracting firm and was written using AJAX and RichFaces. The RichFaces and [...]
Agile IT Experience… 5 closing thoughts.
June 29, 2008 - 7:05 pm
Posted in Agile, ProfessionalStuff, SoftwareDev, code, java | No comments
I’ve been home from the Agile IT Experience for almost 24 hours now. I’ve had enough time to recover from the travel and lack of sleep. So, thinking back about the conference I have a few thoughts.
