I have found that quite a few programmers struggle to work in a completely test driven fashion. I myself whilst writing tests for many years, took a long time to move over to writing the test first. I think one of my problems was that I always wanted to do my thinking in [...]
Feb
1
2010
1
2010
Jan
25
2010
25
2010
Eclipse, Static imports quickly and GitHub gist.
Every one has a collection of favorite Eclipse templates. I find the simple ones are often the most useful. The examples below create you a static import and finish the method your typing. They even put the cursor in the right place if you need arguments in the method. I am going to collect more [...]
Nov
17
2009
17
2009
Racing with Roo
In my last post I said that I would have a deeper look at Spring Roo. Well I still have not quite done that. But I did have a race to see how long it would take me to get my first website up and running with STS and Roo shell. The [...]
Nov
16
2009
16
2009
Quick look at the latest SpringSource STS and Roo
Christian Dupuis from SpringSource shows some of the new features on the SpringIde Blog
I used Spring STS for a few months before starting at Lab49, and found it to be a good distribution over the standard Eclipse build. It has lots of extra productivity features for Spring based development some of which are not [...]
Oct
24
2009
24
2009
IDE Generation of equals methods has its moments
This blog entry looks at the code generated by Eclipse and Netbeans and demonstrates why its a good idea to both test the code and review it thoroughly.