Testivus. Alberto Savoia’s testivus manifesto, or testing for the rest of us:
-Less testing dogma, more testing karma
-Any tests are better than no tests
-Testing beats debugging
-Test first, during, or after – whatever works best for you
-If a method, technique, or tool, gives you more or better tests use it
Programming Language Stories. Best read from beginning to end.
FUBAR. Of the 5 dysfunctional attributes of good engineers.
EJB over HTTP. The SOA Facts page is still growing, with new gems like:
- SOA actually stands for Same Old Architecture - whatever your old architecture is.
- Implementing SOA for the first time is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- Implementing SOA for the second time is the triumph of hope over experience.
Via Tim Bray who also links to the proposed Java RESTful API. I hope it will end up like this, though right now it looks dangerously like this.
And not a decade too soon. Stephen Colebourne: “I am now seeking to gather as many views, opinions, feedback and ideas as possible from anyone who has ever found Date or Calendar to be a real pain.”
Jon Rowett’s Workblog » Links for 15 February 2007