Software Development

Actor style messaging and honey do lists

Andrew Glover — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:56:44 -0500

As I previously mentioned in “Free lunches, mousetraps and the Actor model“, Edward A.

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ESDC 2010 resources

Andrew Glover — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:48:39 -0500

I recently had the opportunity to present four different talks at the Enterprise Software Development Conference (or ESDC) in San Mateo, California. In an effort to provide additional data points and information, I created individual resource pages for each talk. These pages (hosted at my company’s site — beacon50.com) provide links to articles, blog entries, tutorials, and a copy of each presentation.

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Free lunches, mousetraps and the Actor model

Andrew Glover — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:01:25 -0500

A politician once mused

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps.

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iPFaces - Mobile Application Framework

edhouse — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:50:26 -0500

Edhouse has released version 1.1 of iPFaces project, the mobile framework for simple creation of native, form-oriented network applications for mobile devices (iPhone, iPAD, iPod, BlackBerry, Mobile Java).

The aim of the solution is to screen the programmer completely out from the mobile platform itself, and transfer the entire application logic to central application server level. Developers with experience with one of the supported Web technologies (ASP.Net, Java, and PHP) may start working with iPFaces virtually immediately.

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Tools and Methods

Forrester’s outlook for 2010: less fat, more meat

Andrew Glover — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:56:10 -0500

SDTimes recently published an article entitled “Five changes for application development in 2010” in which they reference a newly released Forrester report.

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Development 2.0 concepts at ESDC

Andrew Glover — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:30:54 -0500

In March, I’ll have the distinct pleasure of joining a number of hip friends in speaking at the Enterprise Software Development Conference (or ESDC) in San Mateo, California.

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Å trene på Java EE

jhannes — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:00:31 -0500

For å bli bedre må man trene. For å bli bedre med avanserte ting, må man forstå de grunnleggende tingene bra. For å vite hvorfor man bruker avanserte verktøy, må man prøve å jobbe uten dem. Derfor har jeg de siste ukene trent mange ganger på å lage en veldig enkel webapplikasjon i Java. For hele applikasjonen har jeg startet med å skrive testene før koden som implementerer funksjonaliteten.

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Provisioning a Hudson CI server

Andrew Glover — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:42:54 -0500

As I wrote about before, CI in a Box is one of the easiest ways to get up and running with Continuous Integration– in fact, if you don’t believe me, check out the CI in a Box tutorial video.

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Comparing Scala and Groovy via ScalaTest and easyb

Andrew Glover — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:40:25 -0500

Because it’s my bag, I’ve recently taken to learning Scala.

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CouchDB on EC2 in 3 1/2 minutes

Andrew Glover — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:35:29 -0500

CouchDB is an open source document oriented database written in Erlang that allows you to model domains in a flexible manner as a self-contained document that contains no schema but, instead, a roughly similar blueprint to other documents.

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Effective Enterprise Java at Öredev

jhannes — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:40:37 -0500

Just three weeks ago, I was asked to step in for Ted Neward to give a tutorial at Öredev on Effective Enterprise Java. As I did not have time to get the tutorial materials printed, I present them here on the web for the participants and others.

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Instant Continuous Integration via the cloud

Andrew Glover — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:25:02 -0400

Looking to get Continuous Integration running for your project in short order? I recently took a look at CI in a Box, which is a

cloud based solution that provides Hudson, as a CI server, Java 6, Ant and Maven 2

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Grails hip tip: working behind a proxy?

Andrew Glover — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:53:56 -0400

If you find yourself behind a bogue proxy when working with Grails, you might find it difficult to download various plug-ins. Nevertheless, the Grails team already solved this problem for you — simply issue the set-proxy command via the command line and a nifty script will prompt you for any required credentials.

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easyb now supports re-running failed behaviors

Andrew Glover — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:18:23 -0400

The latest version of easyb (that is, 0.9.6) contains two new features (among others, man):

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Continuous Integration with Grails

Andrew Glover — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:03:25 -0400

My friend, John Ferguson Smart recently wrote an article for java.net entitled “Grails and Continuous Integration: An Essential Combo” in which he demonstrates how to leverage Hudson’s Grails plug-in. Hudson is a hip CI server and having the ability to monitor a Grails project is quite neat. I highly recommend reading his article!

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Subversion with proxies

Andrew Glover — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:29:23 -0400

If you happen to reside on a network that requires proxy authentication, command-line Subversion won’t work. Unless, of course, you configure Subversion to leverage a proxy correctly.

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Hello Google App Engine

Andrew Glover — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:21:15 -0400

As I’ve written about before, open source solutions and borrowed infrastructures are changing the character of

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Increasing Tomcat’s memory

Andrew Glover — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:38:56 -0400

If you happen to casually peruse the Grails documentation, you might notice the following note regarding memory (please note, man, that the emphasis has been added by yours truly):

If memory is not a problem on your server then allocate a large amount of memory, such as 512M or more. Also use the server VM option. EG: (-server -Xms512M -Xmx512M). Usually it is better to set both min and max heap size to the same in server applications.

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Instant Google App Engine

Andrew Glover — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:32:01 -0400

Getting up and running on the App Engine couldn’t be any easier, man — in fact, Google even provides an Eclipse plug-in that handles just about everything for you! In order to get started though, you do need an App Engine account (which is free, by the way). Once you’ve done that, you can download the Eclipse plug-in via Eclipse’s Software Update feature as shown below.

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Euler was groovy too

Andrew Glover — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:03:18 -0400

I recently stumbled across Project Euler, which is a hip website containing quite a few different math challenges. The idea being that people can attempt to solve any particular challenge which ever way they can (that is, in any language and with any algorithm) — the site doesn’t provide answers either — you must create an account and submit your answer. Project Euler will then check your answer and issue a response — correct or incorrect.

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Agile testing: a whole team approach

Andrew Glover — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:15:04 -0400

Agile testing is about two things: a whole life-cycle and whole team approach to testing. The whole life-cycle aspect stresses leveraging testing throughout a hip process as opposed to a distinct period. Likewise, a whole team approach welcomes all parties to the quality table as everyone (yes, that means all stakeholders) accepts responsibility for building in quality.

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Agile testing: a whole life-cycle approach

Andrew Glover — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:27:32 -0400

As I elaborated in two previous hip posts entitled “Agile testing: what it’s not” and “Agile testing: what it is” agile testing boils down to two fundamental aspects — it’s about a whole life-cycle and whole team approach to testing.

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Agile testing: what it is

Andrew Glover — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:29:52 -0400

In a previous post entitled “Agile testing: what it’s not“, I attempted to define how testing has been traditionally done; with the stage set as the status quo, my definition of agile testing hopefully will make a lot more sense.

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Agile testing: what it’s not

Andrew Glover — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:00:34 -0400

Because it’s my bag, I’ve been asked on more than one occasion the question: “what is agile testing?” — that is, what does Agile mean to traditional QA teams?

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Mashups are Groovy, baby!

Andrew Glover — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:36:38 -0400

Online social networking is all the rage these days, man! In DeveloperWorks’ “Social mashups with Groovy” article, you’ll learn how to build a social network with Google Maps, Twitter, Groovy, and Ajax. By combining a Google Map with location information that Twitter exposes, you can create a mashup that allows people to view Twitter in light of a particular location. The simple application this article builds lets users view a map of their Twitter friends, a.k.a: hip geo-view of their entire network.

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