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Daily Dose - Hibernate and Hibernate Validator Releases

The final release of Hibernate 3.5.3 was delivered today with three main bugfixes.  Hibernate Validator 4.1 CR 1 was also released today.  Validator 4.1 adds...

0 replies - 16556 views - 06/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The biggest mistakes teams make when applying DDD

Udi Dahan spoke today at the DDD Exchange about common misunderstandings and problems that teams have with implementing Domain Driven Design. According to...

2 replies - 7811 views - 06/16/10 by Gojko Adzic in News

Tumble dried BDD from Studio Pragmatists

On the 18th of May, 2010, the very new tumbler-glass project by Studio Pragmatists uploaded Tumbler 0.2.1 to Maven.  Having recently written about JBehave...

1 replies - 5119 views - 06/07/10 by Martin Harris in News

FlexMonkey 4 and FlexMonkium for Selenium

FlexMonkey is a free and open source Adobe AIR application used for testing Flex and AIR based applications. It can record, playback, and verify Flex UI...

0 replies - 8424 views - 06/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Test-Driven Javascript

Last year, I founded a start-up with Arlo Belshee and Kim Wallmark. It didn't go anywhere, but one legacy of that project was some interesting solutions to...

1 replies - 3057 views - 05/20/10 by James Shore in News

Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 Supports GWT, GAE, and Solr

With the first milestone release of Spring Roo 1.1.0, Project Lead Ben Alex says you can build a working web app with a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) front-end in...

0 replies - 24608 views - 05/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Approaches to Organizational Change

Mary Poppendieck gave her usual well-researched and convincing tour-de-force presenation at LSSC10 on several approaches to organizational change with a...

0 replies - 4949 views - 05/10/10 by Michael Sahota in News

IBM Impact 2010 Keynote: Craig Hayman, GM Application & Integration Middleware, IBM

Craig Hayman is IBM's General Manager of Application & Integration Middleware.  In this keynote address at IBM Impact, Hayman addresses the need for...

1 replies - 4374 views - 05/05/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

SlickEdit: More Than Just An Editor (Video)

Scott Westfall is the VP of software development for the SlickEdit tool. He says that SlickEdit's President/CEO is also their CTO and the head developer on the...

0 replies - 9872 views - 05/05/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Yet More Praise for Unit Tests

I can't say enough good things about TDD. But I'll try.Due to an epic failure to read the documentation (this, specifically) I couldn't get our RESTful...

1 replies - 4007 views - 04/27/10 by Steven Lott in News

DSL Interoperability and Language Cacophony

Many times I hear people say that DSL based development often leads to a situation where you have to manage a mix of code written in various languages,...

1 replies - 6528 views - 04/26/10 by Debasish Ghosh in News

Separation of concerns in Ant

There’s nothing wrong with Ant. No, really! True, there’s some nasty Ant files out there. Perhaps that’s because we often treat our build as a...

4 replies - 5590 views - 04/23/10 by Julian Simpson in News

Supporting Multiple Environments – Part 4

In the final installment, I’m going to talk about how to share configuration between developer level environments on through to clustered or “stack”...

1 replies - 3165 views - 04/21/10 by Julian Simpson in News

User Experience Design and Agile

 Jared Spool talks about 'experience design', which involves a user's entire involvement in a process, not just through a website, but also through the...

0 replies - 3006 views - 04/14/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

The class design checklist

Given the good reception of the TDD checklist, I've decided to put together a similar one with suggestions for the generic class and interface design....

1 replies - 13660 views - 04/14/10 by Giorgio Sironi in News