Glen

djUnit is one cool plugin

I’ve been looking for a decent code coverage tool that integrates nicely with Eclipse for some time. I’ve used clover and cobertura on the server side as part of automated builds and they are both very cool tools, but I’ve been looking for an open source tool to run on single tests in the IDE just to see how much things are improving. Enter djUnit. This tool has exactly the format and...

Glen

Sudoku + Java + SpringMVC =

Well… an online sudoku solver web app using SpringMVC. Taking our local JUG’s Sudoku Coding Challenge to the next level seemed like a pretty good waste of time to me… so there you go. My solver uses very basic heuristics and has no brute force logic yet. Even so, it’s manage to solve all but the most evil computer generated Sudokus that I’ve thrown at it. As an aside, if...

Glen

Back from 3 Days at IBM Labs Australia

Just came back from 3 days at IBM’s Tivoli Labs on the Gold Coast – and had a great time – even though it was unbelievably hot up there. It was great to meet the guys up there who have just shipped Tivoli Access Management (TAM) 6. But what I was really excited to see was the very cool culture that they have build up there – very casual but with tons of young smart people having...