Grok Programming

eWeek has an interesting article on Groovy’s rise in the ranks of programming languages.

“Groovy now ranks 31 on the list of top programming languages, according to Davis and data from the TIOBE Software BV. Groovy had cracked the top 100 six months ago, moving from 103 to 52, and jumped to its current position in a January poll.“

It is fantastic to see Groovy getting some real positive attention I can only hope that will spur people to more work on the Groovy Eclipse plugin.

One of the questions one of my friends asked in a comment on another posting was, “So, if you could recommend only 1 technical book I get through this year, which one would it be?” I read way too many books. In fact, my doctor says if I don’t stop I’ll turn into a nerd. I’m willing to risk it. Anyway, I’m far from one to shrink away from such a vague and wide ranging question. These aren’t book reviews but simply a few of the reasons I think the book is pretty good or where it could be better. So in no specific order here they are…. Continue Reading »

On the project that I’m working on we reached a point where we needed to integration test the major component that we are building. We already have unit tests with good code coverage for each of the individual pieces. Call me crazy but I wanted to ensure the whole work flow, well, worked. Correctly. You know, test the fact that all these little units happily working in unison would produce output that would make sure everyone on the project team stayed employed. I also wanted a way to run these test in a more or less automated fashion so developers wouldn’t have to remember to do it. To that end the project team started taking a look at Fit and FitNess to see if that would do what we wanted. Both are useless. Continue Reading »