Sick of “Performance Testing”

I’m sick of the term “performance testing”. It misses the point.

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CIO Magazine article on Refactoring

I got interviewed a few months ago by a journalist from CIO Magazine. Here’s the article.

JUnit Architecture Redux

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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XDoclet 1.2 vs SGen

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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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 … 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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Web Application Design Principle #1

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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An Amusing Thing Happened On The Way In Tonight…

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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I love the task in Ant 1.6…

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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There are times that I really hate Internet Explorer

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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DTSTTCPW – What does it mean?

“Do The Simplest Thing That Can Possibly Work” – that’s what. Now, what does that mean?

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