Pushing the envelopeDarren's take on Java, agile methods, cool open source stuff, interesting technologies and other random wanderings through the land of blog.Bracing- January 31, 2003 Woke up at 4 am today. My clock with built-in temperature gauge said it was 11 degrees celcius. In my bedroom. Still no hot water or heating. Bet you can't guess just how much I'm looking forward to showering this morning.http://radio.weblogs.com/0111784/2003/01/31.html#a203 Cold showers considered harmful- January 23, 2003 Went through the usual morning ritual of turning on the shower and sticking my hand in the stream to check the temperature, as we all do. In my case of course, it was in the forlorn hope that the water in the cold pipe had somehow been mystically heated to the perfect showering temperature, and was not, in fact, freezing. Still have no heating system. Probably won't have next week either. I'd like to report that cold showers are actually quite invigorating, and remark on how quickly I got...http://radio.weblogs.com/0111784/2003/01/23.html#a202 A few of my favourite things- January 22, 2003 A quick-reference list of some of the tools I am using or plan to investigate further. Ant: Build tool. Castor: Bean mapping. CruiseControl: Continuous integration. CVS: Source control. Jetty: Servlet container. JUnit: Unit testing. Marathon Man: Swing GUI testing. OpenJMS: Java messaging. SAPDB: Database. Scarab: Issue tracking. TortoiseCVS: CVS GUI. Velocity: Templating. WinMerge: Diff tool. XDoclet: Code generation. Combined price: zero. Combined worth: priceless.http://radio.weblogs.com/0111784/2003/01/22.html#a201 Useful stuff- January 21, 2003 Something useful I learned about at work today: SAPDB. Those nice folks at SAP have open-sourced their database code.http://radio.weblogs.com/0111784/2003/01/21.html#a200 First Day at ThoughtWorks- January 20, 2003 New job, first day, usual mix of excitement and curiosity. Possibly more so than for other jobs I've had, probably because I'm really enthused about working for ThoughtWorks. Domestically, life could be better due to the complete failure of my central heating and hot water. Cold showers forecasted for this week. Mmm, nice.http://radio.weblogs.com/0111784/2003/01/20.html#a199 Robocode- January 18, 2003 Starting messing with Robocode earlier this week. Its fun, in a busman's holiday kind of way. The complexity of some of the publicly available robots is amazing. Its also a good way to learn about the behaviour of highly event-driven systems (ie. unpredictable).http://radio.weblogs.com/0111784/2003/01/18.html#a198 |