Mind Dump

[...] Linux has this wonderful thing called the buffer cache (for more detail read here ). In summary, it uses all your free ram as a cache for file access. [...]

[...] unfortunately took a month and a half and the damage in the meantime was quite severe. Pompe disease is exceedingly rare (1 in 40k births depending on population) and is rarely caught when it [...]

[...] things that were major current maintenance time sinks I had not yet successfully moved all my unit tests around to the different modules so I had managed to eliminate my hard won safety net. Several [...]

[...] price for something if before and certain date or a default price. The majority of ‘unit tests’ require a database, or web and application server to be up and running. The majority of [...]

[...] all costs Many small simple well named classes are the key to well organized code Unit tests really don't test anything useful Dependency injection leads to an unusable mess Dependency [...]

[...] ’s help and as a reference for those wanting to go into deeper study. Note: Cross posted from Polyglots R Us. Permalink [...]

[...] . Besides in Java at least it’s easy to change your mind later. Note: Cross posted from Polyglots R Us. Permalink [...]

[...] doing front to back testing to yes, make sure things really work. Note: Cross posted from Polyglots R Us. Permalink [...]

[...] ) – basically run “make” on the fly and pass everything to javac. JAVA IDE-agnostic project systems  (Maven, Gradle) – adding all the references contained directly to [...]

[...] for ASP.NET unit testing, for a bargain price. Typemock Isolator is a leading .NET unit testing tool (C# and VB.NET) [...]

[...] if your project structure doesn't line up quite right with Maven's point of view? Enter Apache Ivy which like Maven can automatically download and resolve all of your dependencies and their [...]

[...] repositories the difference in time to build between this and an alternate dependency manager Apache Ivy is stark. Very opinionated view of the build process. Those of you used to (N)Ant or Rake will [...]

[...] . Which system is the best? A. There is no one size fits all answer here. I now know Apache Maven solves some problems for people and even though I don’t appreciate it’s approach to [...]

I recently had to setup a build server for some rails work I'm doing. Still wanting to support my other projects I setup Jenkins. I ran into several i [...]