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Why Java
At Cake Solutions, we have been using Java for quite a few years. Recently, I had to formulate why our customers should chose Java over other languages. It was easy to come up with geeky reasons, but purely technical reasons on their own are not enough. It turns out that modern Java EE applications are [...] Read more on this story »
Practical Roo
I have the pleasure of introducing another training course: Practical Roo! Huge discount to whoever guesses what the course is about. Actually no, there’s no discount, but I’d be happy to send my personal well done note. Now, to the course itself. It is a two-day course, you will need some Java experience, it will help [...] Read more on this story »
Onwards
Just a quick post to show the Zookeeper’s web interface. Yes, it is very simple and I will work hard to improve it (or, dear readers, if you fancy contributing, this is the area I’ll need most help in). Now, to the screenshots: Read more on this story »
Text-based report
I have yet a lot of work to complete on the web UI, but I have a good idea about the text-based reports. So, here’s what Zookeeper spits out after receiving an error report from a running Tomcat. * org/zookeeper/domain/DisconnectedExceptionLoader.java 08 09 public class DisconnectedExceptionLoader { 10 private static final Pattern STACK_TRACE_ELEMENT_PATTERN = 10 Pattern.compile("\tat (.*)(\\.(\\w+)\\((\\w+)\\.java:(\\d+))"); 11 12 public DisconnectedException load(Reader [...] Read more on this story »
DeCare Systems Ireland Blog
Smartstay iPhone App for the Hospitality Industry
DSI has partnered with an award-winning hospitality marketing firm, O?Rourke Hospitality Marketing LLC, to help hotels open up a new mobile marketing channel using the SmartstaySM iPhone application. Combining O?Rourke?s full service marketing capabilities that focuses exclusively on the hospitality industry and DSI?s technical excellence, the partnership will develop a unique, feature rich iPhone application [...] Read more on this story »
Fota Island Resort iPhone App Officially Launches
Cork?s five star Fota Island Resort is the first independent hotel in Ireland to launch an iPhone application. And what?s more, they?re using a branded version of DSI?s hospitality iPhone app to lead the charge in the Irish hospitality industry. The free Fota Island Resort iPhone app is available to download here - [...] Read more on this story »
?Phoenix House Guest Relations? iPhone App Launches
Phoenix House, the 5 star luxury serviced apartments in London, officially launched their branded version of DSI?s hospitality iPhone app today. Featuring an interactive map with local attractions, apartment information, and the latest news/twitter feeds, the ?Phoenix House Guest Relations? iPhone app provides a 24/7 hotel concierge to guests. Users can also explore Phoenix [...] Read more on this story »
DeCare Systems Ireland?s Solution for the Hospitality Industry.
A few weeks ago a friend of mine who runs a 5 Star property of 33 luxury apartments in London?s fashionable Sloane Square asked me which is the best iPhone docking station on the market. He told me that he had received many requests from guests to have them in the rooms. After looking at [...] Read more on this story »
DevIL's Diary
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Spring.NET AOP - Behind The Scenes (3)
Spring. NET AOP - behind the scenes (2)
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Gojko Adzic
Let?s change the tune
As a community, we’re very guilty of using technical terms and confusing business users. If we want to get them more involved, we have to use the right names for the right things and stop confusing people. This lesson is obvious in acceptance tests and we know that we need to keep the naming consistent [...] Read more on this story »
Webinar: Effect Maps ? Tomorrow
Donna Reed generously offered to organise a follow-up webinar to the one I did recently on effective specifications for agile teams. I’ll run through an interactive exercise of creating an effect map and then do Q&A on all the topics we did not have time to answer the last time. The webinar is tomorrow. Register [...] Read more on this story »
The Sine of Death by UI Test Automation
I came up with this yesterday while running my agile acceptance testing workshop for a client. Sounds familiar? Read How to implement UI Testing without shooting yourself in the foot Read more on this story »
Clean Acceptance Tests, August 3rd, central London
The next meeting of the UK agile testing user group is on the 3rd of August in central London. Here are the details of the talk: Dan Leong on Clean Acceptance Tests This presentation discusses how our agile team renewed our focus and understanding of our acceptance tests when the team members changed. Our group [...] Read more on this story »
Jonas Partner
Spring Integration: Whats going on in there? Part 1 Esper wire tap
Earlier this week Russ Miles announced the release of the OpenCredo Esper extension project (read it here). This project is something we created primarily to make using Esper, the open source Complex Event Processing framework, in conjunction with Spring Integration really easy. At OpenCredo we have been using Esper to help solve the problem [...] Read more on this story »
Quiet but not forgotten
Little time to blog lately but hopefully I will be getting some more time as of mid November. Having started OpenCredo in conjunction with Russ Miles and Gary Levy earlier in the year we have seen fantastic growth in our first six months. Thankfully things are now starting to settle down after the initial crazy [...] Read more on this story »
Working with Maven and SpringSource dm Server
Since I am a big Maven fan one of the things that pained me when starting to work with the dm Server was that the tooling for managing project dependencies was all based around Eclipse. The STS 2.0 RC discussed by Christian Dupuis here now has support for a separate test classpath using a proprietary [...] Read more on this story »
Demo One from my UK Spring User Group talk: The simplicity of Spring Integration
I was asked to make the code available for the demos that were part of my talk for the UK Spring User Group at Skills Matter. The video of which is here. Today I am posting the code for the first demo which demonstrates just how easy it is to get up and running [...] Read more on this story »
Videos
Vimeo / Skills Matter's uploaded videos
LeanSSC 2010 UK: Karl Scotland on A Kanban Multiverse - 09/07/2010
Agile Testing meetup group:Hands-On Root-Cause Analysis
Bob Marshall: QA, QC and Agile - 29/04/2010
Marco Tedane: Agile and the tests - 29/04/2010
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