Our dog food Pulse server, which spends all day building itself, is a headless box. This presented no challenge for the Pulse 1.x series of releases, as our builds are all scripted and don’t require any GUI tools. With Pulse 2.0, however, things changed. As mentioned in my previous post, this new [...]

Our dog food Pulse server, which spends all day building itself, is a headless box. This presented no challenge for the Pulse 1.x series of releases, as our builds are all scripted and don’t require any GUI tools. With Pulse 2.0, however, things changed. As mentioned in my previous post, this new [...]

Pulse 2.0 has a completely overhauled configuration UI. The current 1.2 UI uses standard web forms, whereas the new UI is ExtJS-based and makes heavy use of AJAX. This makes for a huge improvement in usability, unfortunately at the cost of making all of our existing acceptance tests for the UI redundant! [...]

Pulse 2.0 has a completely overhauled configuration UI. The current 1.2 UI uses standard web forms, whereas the new UI is ExtJS-based and makes heavy use of AJAX. This makes for a huge improvement in usability, unfortunately at the cost of making all of our existing acceptance tests for the UI redundant! [...]

A: Java without generics. Yes, there are many problems with the Java generics implementation. And I seriously hope that the implementation is improved in Java 7. However, it occurs to me that the problems can generally be worked around by either: Not using generics where the limitations make it too difficult; or Using unsafe [...]

A: Java without generics. Yes, there are many problems with the Java generics implementation. And I seriously hope that the implementation is improved in Java 7. However, it occurs to me that the problems can generally be worked around by either: Not using generics where the limitations make it too difficult; or Using unsafe [...]

Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work, then Refactor Mercilessly: two well known Extreme Rules. It’s hard to argue with the virtues of refactoring, but if you’ve ever had to manage parallel codelines then you might have a different perspective on “mercilessly”. Many types of refactoring are at odds with parallel...

Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work, then Refactor Mercilessly: two well known Extreme Rules. It’s hard to argue with the virtues of refactoring, but if you’ve ever had to manage parallel codelines then you might have a different perspective on “mercilessly”. Many types of refactoring are at odds with parallel...

Wondering why everything has gone quiet over here? Well, all should become clear now: I have just completed a move from rainy Sydney to sunny London1. Combine the Christmas break with an overseas move and you have a recipe for zero blog posts! The good news is that I am back in action [...]

Wondering why everything has gone quiet over here? Well, all should become clear now: I have just completed a move from rainy Sydney to sunny London1. Combine the Christmas break with an overseas move and you have a recipe for zero blog posts! The good news is that I am back in action [...]

Today’s phrase of choice is “you don’t need”, with the word of the day being “never”. Consider this entry in the Hibernate FAQ: The hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update setting doesn’t create indexes SchemaUpdate is activated by this configuration setting. SchemaUpdate is not really very powerful and comes...

Today’s phrase of choice is “you don’t need”, with the word of the day being “never”. Consider this entry in the Hibernate FAQ: The hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update setting doesn’t create indexes SchemaUpdate is activated by this configuration setting. SchemaUpdate is not really very powerful and comes...

Martin Fowler makes an interesting claim in GroovyOrJRuby: A strong reason to prefer Ruby is the fact that it lives in multiple implementations. Fowler is alluding to the fact that Groovy runs on the JVM only, whereas “Ruby can run directly on mainstream operating systems with a C runtime, and is starting to run on .NET’s...

Martin Fowler makes an interesting claim in GroovyOrJRuby: A strong reason to prefer Ruby is the fact that it lives in multiple implementations. Fowler is alluding to the fact that Groovy runs on the JVM only, whereas “Ruby can run directly on mainstream operating systems with a C runtime, and is starting to run on .NET’s...

OK, so it’s not quite the same as Quake Done Quick, but Chris has put together a few demo videos that show just how easy it is to set up Pulse and get building. In less than 5 minutes a server is setup with a first project and build. Another 5 minutes and [...]