Manning’s Art of Unit Testing is interesting in that it has chapters dedicated to the maintainability and readability of the tests. I didn’t read the whole book as most of it is about unit testing .NET code. (I’m a Java developer) While these are pretty much all things I do regularly, I learned many of [...]

I’ve been using Eclipse 3.5 for a couple months now making it a good time to share the features that affected me the most – 4 good; 1 bad. Getting started Quick install with favorite plugins: My Eclipse 3.4 workspace was starting to get corrupted making it a good time to make a clean break.  [...]

Where did the Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification go? [edit: July 12nd - it's back now] Background This week I’ve blogged about Sun announcing a beta for the new Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification including why requiring programming is such a great thing and how it differs from the existing SCJP/SCJD. Current links If you [...]