Technoetic

Christian at the Carbon Five Community recently published an interesting blog article on Multithreaded Testing. Christian showed how to use Java 5 built-in concurrency features to create a nice, clean multithreaded test for an article dispatcher. It’s a good example of using the Java concurrency features, but I wondered about the effectiveness of the test. [...]

Multiple processor and multicore computing platforms are becoming very common and most programmers are aware that special Java programming techniques are required in these environments. A popular technique is to ensure that your code always executes in a single thread. It’s a reasonable strategy but it’s very easy to unintentionally violate that constraint. Consider this [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]