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I ran into a bit of a quandary the other day. I had to modify a piece of legacy code in our system - one that has no tests written against it. My first task was to write as many JUnit tests as I could to document the behavior of the component [...]

I got admonished at my new job for coding practices that have become second nature to me. Is aggressive refactoring really that scary?

My co-worker tests his code with the toString() and visual grep method. I’m not sure he would have ever caught the bug on his own. I keep trying to explain that unit tests are a Good Thing…

Several years ago, I worked for a small software shop. The company had gone through its number of growing pains, but seemed to be well established by the time I joined. Time would prove me wrong, and also give me some things to remember if ever I start my own small business.

This has been a pet project of mine for a while, and I’m happy to announce that I can finally let everybody else see it.

In my Valleyschwag post, I complained that I just needed a MacBook to affix all of my stickery goodness to. Thanks to a good price on some employee stock options and the permission of my wife, I’m writing this on a brand spanking new MacBook.

When I first saw a write-up about ValleySchwag, I knew I needed (well, wanted) it. I mean, Web 2.0 stuff mailed to me every month for a measly sum! One thing you don’t get here in the middle of military contractor land is much of anything new and groundbreaking.

I made an earlier post touting TurboM2, but things have happened in the last few months that have resulted in its disappearance. Luckily, I grabbed a full source snapshot before the site went offline. Shortly thereafter, I got myself a SourceForge account, and the Frame2 Web Application Framework was born.