Sessions attended:
Unit Testing Best Practices — Andrew Glover
I had an opportunity to see Drew speak at the local Wisconsin Java User Group before and decided that I’d like to check it out. JUnit as you all know is a unit-testing framework for Java. I’ve had experience with JUnit but didn’t realize the add-ons that could [...]
Sessions attended:
Creating, Telling, and Tracking User Stories — David Hussman
On Day 3 of NFJS, I had an opportunity to sit with David for breakfast, which was fun. This session aimed to help people create, and track user stories. We ran through a mock-up scenario of a point of sale software product. Was a lot of [...]
Day One
Arrived at the conference this afternoon where we were greeted with the news of the upcoming sessions and raffle’s that will be held throughout the weekend. The prizes included some iPod Nanos! Awesome.
First session I attended was Intro to Hibernate by Bruce Tate. This session should have been called, Intro to Object-Relational Mapping. Granted, [...]
For those game programmers out there:
http://maththinking.com/boat/specialGameBooksIndex.html
While working in my ASP.net course last fall, I ran into exceptions being thrown when the data field value was empty (or Database Null). So, I searched the internet and found this nice little sniplet (slightly modified):
Public Function IsDBNull(ByVal dbvalue) As Boolean
Return dbvalue Is DBNull.Value
End Function Public Function FixNull(ByVal dbvalue) As String
Dim ret as String
If [...]
So, I’m hearing all the buzz about Java 1.6 codenamed Mustang.
What features will it bring? Not exactly sure. There is a lot of hype about being able to create Java splash-screens, but let’s think, is it really worth it? I’m sure there are some patches, and some “legit” changes involved.
Most business’ are still using 1.4 [...]
This site offers a great walk-through of the process of designing/coding up a nice site.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/livedesign/
You’d be surprised to see funny comment lines in the source code such as: “GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE WRAPPERS DO”, it’s a must see.
I have been following the Google vs the US DoJ in the past few blog entries:
http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2006/01/21/google-soga-follow-up/ http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/2006/01/20/rock-on-google/
Google called the Bush administration’s request for data on Web searches as “so uninformed as to be nonsensical” in papers filed in San Jose federal court Friday, arguing that turning over the information would expose its trade secrets and [...]
You must be a criminal.
Sadly, this appears to have become the “new” thinking of the government. Whatever happened to being a responsible internet user by attempting to hide information from other people who might be sniffing the network? What about companies who wish to keep their trade secrets, secrets?
I really enjoy how the FCC and [...]
I’ve taken the time to upgrade my Wordpress, it seriously, only took a minute or two to do.
Sadly, the spellcheck plugin that I had been using doesn’t appear to be compatable with the new version, perhaps someday.
One thing I’m noticing with Firefox 1.5.0.1 is with the new text-editor is that it creates a new space [...]