In a comment on an earlier post Jon Eaves expressed concern that refactoring is being over-used as a verb. In particular, the line between refactoring and rearchitecting (or rewriting) was being blurred, and refactoring was being used as a label for any activity where you go back and do things right the second time. You know something? Jon’s right.
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I’m sick of the term “performance testing”. It misses the point.
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Looks like I’m talking about another post of Cedric’s It seems he doesn’t like JUnit’s test suites, and decided to write a new tool to solve his problem.
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Update: I had a couple of simple mistakes in my presentation, which are now corrected.
I gave a talk at AJUG-QLD last night, on using XDoclet for code generation. Went down pretty well, I think, though that could be just my flattered ego talking.
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I thought I’d expand on my previous point. It’s a simple one, but they’re always the trickiest. Web apps are by their nature stateless. Stateless applications are a pain in the butt to build, because they are extremely complex (not just complicated). By stateless, what I really mean is that the client state and the … Continue reading “More on stateless web apps”
I thought I’d expand on my previous point. It’s a simple one, but they’re always the trickiest.
Web apps are by their nature stateless. Stateless applications are a pain in the butt to build, because they are extremely complex (not just complicated). By stateless, what I really mean is that the client state and the server states are disconnected. This is due to the (truly) stateless nature of the HTTP protocol that underlies all web apps.
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There’s a fundamental design principle with web-based applications that constantly amazes me people forget. It’s a simple one, too.
Web applications are inherently stateless
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In my role, I’m the defacto tools librarian; I’m the guy who sucks down the latest and greatest copies of everything so that other people don’t have to. Or more accurately, I’m the guy who sticks the files up on the intranet share so that other people can look there first…
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What can I say? I love the <import> task. 🙂 If the Jolt Awards were accepting nominations at the moment, I’d be nominating that one bit of Ant 1.6 all by itself. 🙂
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I’m working on putting some band-aid fixes into an application supplied to work by an outside vendor. For various reasons, I can’t say who, which I really think is a shame, but…
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Software is too expensive to build cheaply.... 