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Author Archives: Daniel Roop
Language Patterns
I was researching the execution time difference between static and instance method calls today and came across an old Java forum thread about the topic. I was looking for performance information, but everyone in the thread was focusing on “good … Continue reading
Actionscript 3.0 Object Equality
This weekend I began tinkering around with FlexUnit 2.0 for Actionscript 3.0. So far I am excited about the framework. It doesn’t do much, but it does the basics. When writing some of my tests I found I needed to … Continue reading
TDD By Example Reviewed
I recently got a chance to read through Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) by Kent Beck. For those who don’t know, Kent, is the person behind eXtreme Programming and TDD, along with a laundry list of … Continue reading
Buildr Review
I should start this post off by apologizing to the Buildr folks for taking so long to write up this review. I should also point out that I am currently attempting to contribute to this project, I don’t believe that … Continue reading
2nd Player Video Game Podcast
Myself and two of my friends have decided to take a stab at the whole podcast thing. The content is video games (console and pc) and the format is conversation. I think the first episode turned out well and I … Continue reading
Quoth the raven, Nevermore.
I felt this classic line from Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven was appropriate to start off my review of Raven “the build tool for Java programs based on Rake and Ruby Gems”. Now that my eyes have been opened to … Continue reading
Build Tool X vs Build Tool Y
We finished our intial proof of concept work for four build tools at work. The build tools were Maven 2, Ant with Ivy, Raven and Buildr. In the next series of post I would like to give my perspective on … Continue reading
JUnit 4.4
A few months back I gave a presentation on testing software where I work. I believe the talk went well, and it definitely got me interested in testing, and different ideas and practices to ensure your code is working properly. … Continue reading
Alternatives to Ant
A very exciting thing happened recently at my office. I was given the go ahead to do a proof of concept build process using Ruby (Sica if you are reading this calm down and enjoy your new baby!). The task … Continue reading
Adogo Is Official
I have very good sources that tell me that the Adogo User Group has been accepted as the official Orlando User Group by Adobe. And I am posting this because I wanted to scoop them on the story. In other … Continue reading