Month: December 2007

  • How crap is your code?

    Now you can find out with Crap4J. Can wait to run some projects through it. I’m curious as to what the code quality looks like on some of the larger Open Source projects (Dom4J looks pretty good though). I love stats. I don’t know what it is. They’re like horoscopes, or something. Pinch of salt […]

  • Unit testing made simpler(!)

    What is simpler than writing a JUnit test? Getting someone else to write them for you! The really nice people at Agitar Software have developed a couple of tools as part of their “No Java Class Left Behind” programme, that will write JUnit tests for your existing code to prove that it works as expected. […]

  • Sometimes it is easy to forget

    I have been meaning to post lately on everything from an insight that I had into systems architecture when looking at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, to why JRuby is barking up the wrong tree. But I have been otherwise occupied 🙁 So here’s what I term a Moment: Stay tuned.

  • Russian Politics in the Crystal Ball

    Tomorrow the Russians go to the polls to vote for the Duma, the Russian parliament. Vladimir Putin is not standing for the presidency next time around as his tenure is legaly limited by the constitution to two terms, and will instead be putting himself forward as a parliamentary candidate. Here’s my prediction for the near […]