Level up in 2015 with a checklist
I’ve just finished reading a cracker of a little book called The Checklist Manifesto (about $5 on Kindle). Super interesting read about how a surgeon worked with the WHO to […]
Increasing Your Dev Learning Awesomeness in 2015
Gosh, I had a great year in 2014! Aside from shipping the wonderfully-improved second edition of Grails In Action, I exited two companies, developed and launched a completely rewritten Git […]
Teaching Git Retro #3: Training as a Team
This post continues from Part I and Part II in assimilating a few insights that I have collected from running Git Training in Canberra, Australia. Depending on your students, and […]
Teaching Git Retro #2: GUI and Team Context
This post continues a series (part 1) looking at some things I’ve learned running Git training in Canberra, Australia. YMMV in your own cultural and technical contexts Insight #3 – […]
Teaching Git Retro #1: DAGs and Index Cards
We’ve just hosted our freshly minted two-day Git course in Canberra, Australia (which was a major overhaul of a one-day Git course we’re run several times). I’ve learned so much […]
Experiences moving from Android to WinPhone 8.1
Never let it be said that I don’t swim against the stream… Just as the latest IDC numbers show Android eating up the Mobile Smartphone market, with even Apple numbers […]
Going Retro (without a hint of hipster)
“How do you drown a hipster?”… “In the mainstream” .. or so the Dad joke goes.. Well, these days, I have to be counted among the uncoolest programmers on the […]
Selenide in Five Minutes: A lightning talk
I’ve recently been doing a fair bit of Selenide for web functional testing at work, and have found it a lot more accessible than raw Selenium. I’d been looking for an […]
Firing CDI Events from a JPA EntityListener
I really love JPA’s EntityListeners feature – a really lightweight way of doing AOP, but without all the bytecode shenanigans at compiletime. But under EE6 there are a few gotchas – […]
Testing Downloading Files in IE9 via Selenium
After some recent Certified ScrumMaster training with AxisAgile, I’ve been really challenged to beef up my integration testing Kungfu. I’ve always found Selenium a little cumbersome from an API viewpoint, […]