Technoetic

This weekend I attended the Groovy and Grails Experience (2GX) conference. I had done some Groovy scripting and had played with Grails a little. However, this was a good chance to dive into some more advanced topics like Groovy metaprogramming and Grail’s GORM.
My favorite talk was Glen Smith’s overview of Grails plugins for Rich UI […]

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion at the O’Reilly Money:Tech conference. We discussed the extent that the financial technology community had embraced open source. Other members of the panel were Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, James Altucher who founded StockPickr and Graham Miller of Marketcetera. I was representing free financial […]

A recent article on InfoQ (Boost your Java Test with Ruby and JtestR) described a new framework for doing Java testing using JRuby. The article includes the following test case to highlight it’s features.

import java.util.HashMap

describe “An empty”, HashMap do
before :each do
@hash_map = HashMap.new
end
it “should be able to add an entry […]

JUnitFactory is an automated unit test generation service from Agitar Software Labs. This article describes my initial experiences and impressions from using the tool to generate unit tests.
Installation
You can use JUnitFactory through a web interface or as an Eclipse plugin. I have only used the Eclipse plugin . It was very easy to install […]

Disclaimer: I’m not a CSM.