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Writing Testable Code

One of the things I struggle with sometimes is how to write testable code. Especially in an existing system that has lots of established code that is difficult to test. The code may have existing tests, but they are heavy, system tests not quick and speedy unit tests. Eventually, writing

Writing Month Starts November 1

I just got a newsletter the other day about Prag Pro Wri Mo [http://praglife.typepad.com/pragmatic_life/2009/10/prag-pro-wri-mo.html]. I think I'll need to give this a shot in November - which is only a few days away. My goal will be to write

Useful Regular Expression Site

Whenever I use Regular Expressions, my memory is always a little foggy. I usually make a couple of newbie syntax mistakes which waste some time. Now in Java (or in today's case: Ant), I don't want to edit, save (and/or compile), then run every time

Development Practices That I'm Passionate About

In response to Jared's blog entry: 'What Are You Passionate About? [http://agileartisans.com/main/blog/167]': The list was already fairly comprehensive, and I generally agree strongly with all of the points. Daily meetings are a tough one for me - I agree in principle,

Results for the week starting 9/28

I will experiment with whether a second post, or updating the original post, works better. Last week I completed 3 Java Puzzlers and read Career 2.0 each night. I have continued to read nightly, and will finish the book this week. I didn't get around to spending

Java path mystery...solved

For ages, I've wondered how in most cases, java will mysteriously be in your path in windows, even though there is no Java install directory in the path. (it will certainly be a version that was installed with a proper installer, at some prior point, but not necessarily

Goals for this week (starting 9/28)

This week won't have much coding in my forecast (and is approaching half over), but I think it's important to set some goals anyway. * Continue doing 1 Java Puzzler a day * Read a few pages of Career 2.0 [http://www.lulu.com/content/5925115] each

First week's goals (results a month later) - Poor

Well, change isn't always easy, even if you believe in it. I'd say I did fairly poorly on my first week (now a month ago) and those since, though I was on the vacation a decent portion of the time after. Still - that's

This week's goals

Although it took me a week to jumpstart myself after the Career 2.0 talk, I'm setting a set of public goals for this week. Each day, I need to do at least 1 of the following, and each must be done at least once by the end

SSDs for developers - my experience so far

I'm sure a lot of people have read the [Anandtech](http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3403) [articles](http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531) on Solid State Drives by now, and maybe even [Joel Spolsky's story](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/

Avoid JDK 1.6.0_14 for development (missed breakpoints while debugging)

I've occasionally had some debugging pains with Eclipse recently - I've been using JDK 1.6.0_14 for a while. As it turns out, there is a bug in the JDK that causes breakpoints to be missed when debugging. If you are using JDK 1.

A great night (went to Career 2.0 talk!)

I just had the fine privilege of attending Jared Richardson's "Career 2.0" talk at my local java user group. [http://nejug.org/]The talk is based on his book (with Matthew Bass). One of the things he recommended we all do is create a blog