I’m looking at writing integration tests for the back end of JavaRanch‘s JForum install. A few “pesky” requirements/constraints Multiple developers all over the word have their own local test databases filled with data in different states.  The tests must work for everyone.  Ideally they won’t leave data floating around either. The tests must use PostgreSQL.  [...]

Today, I was trying to rotate and flip an image around its center point in Flex and the solutions I came across on the web didn’t seem to do the trick. For images that have been previously dragged/dropped, resized, rotated, or translated, the existing solutions are simply not sufficient. With that in mind, I’ve written [...]

I’ve been volunteering with a FIRST robotics high school team as a programming mentor. Due to a “series of unfortunate events”, we didn’t get to test our logic to drive straight in autonomous mode until the night the robot went into the crate. We wound up using an interesting approach. First we brainstormed options and [...]