RE: The Java Unit Testing Genius- April 26, 2003 Oh yeah, as Mike says Joe is a testing genius, or again in Mike's words "Joe is a god!" Man I learned a lot from him. I learned true Test Driven Development from him though I read Kent Beck's TDD book too. I learned that just unit testing is quite different from TDD and there's a lot more to it. I learned how to use mock objects effectively from Joe. Sadly he turned me into a TDD addict, I almost can't write a single line of code without TDDing now :-( You know the best way to...http://www.jroller.com/ara_e/entry/re_the_java_unit_testing RE Visually Explicit Programming- April 25, 2003 This Visually Explicit Programming thread is so interesting. Imho the biggest problem of UML and MDA-based software development is that, well, the code isn't even close to what you've diagrammed! I mean take a look at buildings around you. It's easy to map what the architect drew on his board to the real tangible building. With UML the diagrams are something the designer guy draws and understands but the real program has very little resemblance to it! The designer prefers to speak a more..http://www.jroller.com/ara_e/entry/re_visually_explicit_programming SOAP: a general mechanism for storing data and its associated metadata in a single document- April 16, 2003 Graham Glass asks an interesting question in his blog: "Is SOAP at its core really a general mechanism for storing data and its associated metadata in a single document" I'm not a SOAP expert and I'm not sure whether SOAP was designed that way really and whether it succeeds in providing such a mechanism. I've used SOAP extensively though. First of all I think it's a good thing that SOAP is text-based, rather than binary. I know many people hate SOAP because it's...http://www.jroller.com/ara_e/entry/soap_a_general_mechanism_for Men and Women- April 4, 2003 Miss Bla complains (as usual!) that men don't understand women. Well, take a look at this picture. Do you really expect us to understand you ;-) Ara.http://www.jroller.com/ara_e/entry/men_and_women |