I think the title of this article says it all.
UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil
Michael Feathers, the author, is very solid.
It’s a very familiar ‘rabbit hole’ in the industry. … Personally, I think that in this day and age selling them [UI testing tools] is irresponsible. Developing them open-source? Well, let your [...]
Have you ever been in a place where you’re maintaining two blogs and want to copy posts from one to the other? I wrote a WordPress plugin that does just that. In our case it copies from Dayspring’s internal blog to our public one. This removes the tedium of having to copy content, comments, [...]
When working with open source software, one of the key things it’s necessary to be aware of are the licensing restrictions. Open source does not mean “no strings attached.” In fact, there are some relatively rigid rules on how open source software can be used and customized, which often have impact on custom web development [...]
Cloud computing is hot. But here’s an interesting article about the cloud model versus the downloadable / behind-the-firewall model that concludes that there are still arguments for downloadable and self-hosted software, chief being control.
Firewall vs. Cloud
And this one is about a cloud-based web app development platform which went under:
Coghead
In my opinion that’s one of the [...]
(In my opinion of course)
This was the session about Google Web Toolkit (GWT). This was a session by the authors of a diagramming tool built on the web.
Check it out
The Conference has run about as they usually do. Out of a day, there was one very good presentation and the rest were so so. Seems to be about the norm.
The one great presentation was about GWT. It was a use case presentation. The presenters were the developers of the Lombardi Blueprint.
This is an on-line [...]
This post is a brief summary of the keynote from Tour de Force introducing Salesforce.com’s strategy.
In general, it seems to me like there is movement in the industry toward providing a number of things as services at all levels of the software application stack ranging from applications that you can "buy" on a scalable, subscription [...]
I’ve been doing a ton of Hibernate mapping recently, and it seems like I’m always looking up options to match my database architecture.
Here is a nice one page summary of the mapping options. You will need to do some reference checks in the complete docs, but it gives you some ideas.
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