In yesterday’s Developer Network Radio audio chat session with Bob Evans, Bob mentioned that he uses EasyMock for some of his unit testing. What are Mock Objects? Who came up with the idea? What is EasyMock? This blog entry will answer these questions and provide links to additional sources of information.
Kent Beck’s book, "Test Driven Development: […]
It’s that holiday time of the year for many of us. If you celebrate Boxing Day, Ramadan, Santa Lucia Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Festivus, and the other world holidays that take place near the end of the year, what to get the software person that has everything? Hard to know since we probably […]
Back in October at the OOPSLA 2004 conference in Vancouver, I sat in on the second edition of my friend Granville “Randy“ Miller’s MDA panel session, "Model Driven Architecture: The Realities, A Year Later". The panelists included: Scott Ambler (Ambysoft), Steve Cook (Microsoft), Karl Frank (Borland), Sridhar Iyengar (IBM), Jon Kern (Compuware), and Stephen Mellor […]
The TIOBE Programming Community monthly index lists the popularity of programming languages. The index is calculated each month using a Google and Yahoo web search (+" programming" -tv) and Google newsgroups searches for the last 12 months. The formula that is applied is #(normalized Google web hits) + #(normalized Yahoo! web hits) + #(normalized Google […]
You can use multiple monitors to increase your desktop space. You can also buy one of those large LCD or an even larger plasma screens to give you more work space. With the number of windows, frames, views, or perspectives that you would like to have in a modern Software Delivery Optimization development platform, you really […]
In today’s (November 25, 2004) San Jose Mercury newspaper business section there is an article titled "Intel puts in plug for Linux". The article talks about how Intel is putting together a software installation kit to help PC makers in China and India to “quickly install Linux on their computers” and “ensure Linux will run […]
Was looking at CNN’s Technology web site and read the article "Software to hunt down faked masterpieces". Hany Farid, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College is using digital imaging and software to identify real and fake masterpiece paintings. "His computer program was able to accurately separate eight drawings by 16th century Flemish artist […]
At the recent OOPSLA 2004 conference in Vancouver there were interesting discussions at some of the panel sessions and in the halls about thinking of software as a “living entity”. If you are thinking about the software lifecycle, should you follow the metaphor relating the aspects of software to real life?
Would you think about and […]
I have been an ACM member since 1972. Founded in 1947, the Association for Computing Machinery (yes the early focus was on hardware and software, I just call the organization ACM because it is focused on topics beyond just hardware). ACM focuses on improving the skills of information technology professionals and students.
One of the ACM […]
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Google Scholar returns results from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles.
Google Scholar orders your search results (just like regular Google) by how relevant they are […]