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  • Eclipse JUnit Plugin Test very slow to re-execute Test Suite on Windows

    - by soundasleepful
    I'm having an odd, and stressing, problem with running a large JUnit Plugin test suite in Eclipse. When I try to re-run a JUnit plugin suite that has just been executed, Eclipse hangs for quite some time before it eventually wakes up and launches. It can take up to 5 minutes sometimes, and increases with the size of the suite. Visually, it appears as a GC cleanup, except that I have plenty of GC space available (400 MB freely allocated). The size of the workspace that is has to delete is well under 1 GB, and there are not too many files - definitely less than 20,000. While I was waiting for a new run to start, I decided to manually kill explorer.exe to see if it had any effect. Surprisingly, Eclipse instantly fell out of its freeze and ran as normal. This makes me think that Windows is somehow interfering with the deletion of these workspace files. They're not being put into the Recycle Bin though. The workspace is in C: which I think is out of the range of any workspace/domain stuff. Any ideas?

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  • How to feature-detect/test for specific jQuery (and Javascript) methods/functions used

    - by Zildjoms
    good day everyone, hope yer all doin awesome am very new to javascript and jquery, and i (think) i have come up with a simple fade-in/out implementation on a site am workin on (check out http://www.s5ent.com/expandjs.html - if you have the time to check it for inefficiency or what that'd be real sweet). i use the following functions/methods/collections and i would like to do a feature test before using them. uhm.. how? or is there a better way to go about this? jQuery $ .fadeIn([duration]) .fadeOut([duration]) .attr(attributeName,value) .append(content) .each(function(index,Element)) .css(propertyName,value) .hover(handlerIn(eventObject),handlerOut(eventObject)) .stop([clearQueue],[jumpToEnd]) .parent() .eq(index) JavaScript setInterval(expression,timeout) clearInterval(timeoutId) setTimeout(expression,timeout) clearTimeout(timeoutId) i tried looking into jquery.support for the jquery ones, but i find myself running into conceptual problems with it, i.e. for fadein/fadeout, i (think i) should test for $.support.opacity, but that would be false in ie whereas ie6+ could still fairly render the fades. also am using jquery 1.2.6 coz that's enough for what i need. the support object is in 1.3. so i'm hoping to avoid dragging-in more unnecessary code if i can. i also worked with browser sniffing, no matter how frowned-upon. but that's also a bigger problem for me because of non-standard ua strings and spoofing and everything else am not aware of. so how do you guys think i should go about this? or should i even? is there a better way to go about making sure that i don't run code that'll eventually break the page? i've set it up to degrade into a css hover when javascript ain't there.. expertise needed. much appreciated, thanks guyz!

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  • How fast are my services? Comparing basicHttpBinding and ws2007HttpBinding using the SO-Aware Test Workbench

    - by gsusx
    When working on real world WCF solutions, we become pretty aware of the performance implications of the binding and behavior configuration of WCF services. However, whether it’s a known fact the different binding and behavior configurations have direct reflections on the performance of WCF services, developers often struggle to figure out the real performance behavior of the services. We can attribute this to the lack of tools for correctly testing the performance characteristics of WCF services...(read more)

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  • Dawn of the Enterprise Social Developer

    - by Mike Stiles
    Social is not just for poking friends, posting videos of cats playing pianos, or even just for brand marketing anymore. It has become a key form of communication internally and externally across every area of the enterprise. As a Java developer, are you positioning yourself for the integration of social into enterprise business systems that’s on the near horizon? Because it’s the work you do and the applications you build that will influence what the social-enabled enterprise is going to look like and how it’s going to operate. But as a social developer, step one is wrapping your arms around all the things that are possible. Traditionally, the best exploration, brainstorming and innovation come from collaborating with other developers. That’s how the big questions can be hashed (or hacked) out. Is Java the best social development environment? If not, what is? What’s already being done in terms of application integration? The JavaOne Social Developer Program will offer up a series of talks and events on those very issues Tuesday, October 2 at the San Francisco Hilton. If you’re interested in embarking on this newest frontier of enterprise social development, you can connect with others who are thinking the same thing and get moving on your first project.Talks will include: Emergence Of The Social EnterpriseExtending Social into Enterprise Applications and Business ProcessesIntro to Open Graph and Facebook's APIs Building the Next Wave of Social Commerce Platforms Social Data and the Enterprise LinkedIn: A Professional Network Built with Java Technologies and Agile Practice Social Developer Hackathon In addition to these learning and discussion opportunities, you might consider joining the new Oracle Social Developer Community (OSDC), where the interaction and collaboration can continue indefinitely. It doesn’t take a lot of tea leaf reading to know that the cloud will house the enterprise technology of the future, and social (as well as the rich data it brings) is going to be a major part of that as social integrates across every business function as there’s proven value for consumer facing initiatives. The next phase of social development is going to involve combining enterprise data from multiple sources, new and existing, social and traditional, in order to tell compelling and usable stories. And social is coming to the enterprise quickly, meaning you as a development leader should seek to understand not just what's worked on the consumer side, but what aspects of those successes can be applied inside the organization. Get educated, get connected, and consider registering for this forward-looking event now to get started with enterprise social development.

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  • Should we test all our methods?

    - by Zenzen
    So today I had a talk with my teammate about unit testing. The whole thing started when he asked me "hey, where are the tests for that class, I see only one?". The whole class was a manager (or a service if you prefer to call it like that) and almost all the methods were simply delegating stuff to a DAO so it was similar to: SomeClass getSomething(parameters) { return myDao.findSomethingBySomething(parameters); } A kind of boilerplate with no logic (or at least I do not consider such simple delegation as logic) but a useful boilerplate in most cases (layer separation etc.). And we had a rather lengthy discussion whether or not I should unit test it (I think that it is worth mentioning that I did fully unit test the DAO). His main arguments being that it was not TDD (obviously) and that someone might want to see the test to check what this method does (I do not know how it could be more obvious) or that in the future someone might want to change the implementation and add new (or more like "any") logic to it (in which case I guess someone should simply test that logic). This made me think, though. Should we strive for the highest test coverage %? Or is it simply an art for art's sake then? I simply do not see any reason behind testing things like: getters and setters (unless they actually have some logic in them) "boilerplate" code Obviously a test for such a method (with mocks) would take me less than a minute but I guess that is still time wasted and a millisecond longer for every CI. Are there any rational/not "flammable" reasons to why one should test every single (or as many as he can) line of code?

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  • How to make the tokenizer detect empty spaces while using strtok()

    - by Shadi Al Mahallawy
    I am designing a c++ program, somewhere in the program i need to detect if there is a blank(empty token) next to the token used know eg. if(token1==start) { token2=strtok(NULL," "); if(token2==NULL) {LCCTR=0;} else {LCCTR=atoi(token2);} so in the previous peice token1 is pointing to start , and i want to check if there is anumber next to the start , so I used token2=strtok(NULL," ") to point to the next token but unfortunattly the strtok function cannot detect empty spaces so it gives me an error at run time"INVALID NULL POINTER" how can i fix it or is there another function to use to detect empty spaces #include <iostream> #include<string> #include<map> #include<iomanip> #include<fstream> #include<ctype.h> using namespace std; const int MAX=300; int LCCTR; int START(char* token1); char* PASS1(char*token1); void tokinizer() { ifstream in; ofstream out; char oneline[MAX]; in.open("infile.txt"); out.open("outfile.txt"); if(in.is_open()) { char *token1; in.getline(oneline,MAX); token1 = strtok(oneline," \t"); START (token1); //cout<<'\t'; while(token1!=NULL) { //PASS1(token1); //cout<<token1<<" "; token1=strtok(NULL," \t"); if(NULL==token1) {//cout<<endl; //cout<<LCCTR<<'\t'; in.getline(oneline,MAX); token1 = strtok(oneline," \t"); } } } in.close(); out.close(); } int START(char* token1) { string start("START"); char*token2; if(token1 != start) {LCCTR=0;} else if(token1==start) { token2=strchr(token1+2,' '); cout<<token2; if(token2==NULL) {LCCTR=0;} else {LCCTR=atoi(token2); if(atoi(token2)>9999||atoi(token2)<0){cout<<"IVALID STARTING ADDRESS"<<endl;exit(1);} } } return LCCTR; } char* PASS1 (char*token1) { map<string,int> operations; map<string,int>symtable; map<string,int>::iterator it; pair<map<string,int>::iterator,bool> ret; char*token3=NULL; char*token2=NULL; string test; string comp(" "); string start("START"); string word("WORD"); string byte("BYTE"); string resb("RESB"); string resw("RESW"); string end("END"); operations["ADD"] = 18; operations["AND"] = 40; operations["COMP"] = 28; operations["DIV"] = 24; operations["J"] = 0X3c; operations["JEQ"] =30; operations["JGT"] =34; operations["JLT"] =38; operations["JSUB"] =48; operations["LDA"] =00; operations["LDCH"] =50; operations["LDL"] =55; operations["LDX"] =04; operations["MUL"] =20; operations["OR"] =44; operations["RD"] =0xd8; operations["RSUB"] =0x4c; operations["STA"] =0x0c; operations["STCH"] =54; operations["STL"] =14; operations["STSW"] =0xe8; operations["STX"] =10; operations["SUB"] =0x1c; operations["TD"] =0xe0; operations["TIX"] =0x2c; operations["WD"] =0xdc; if(operations.find("ADD")->first==token1) { token2=strtok(NULL," "); //test=token2; cout<<token2; //if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} //else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } /*else if(operations.find("AND")->first==token1) { token2=strtok(NULL," "); test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("COMP")->first==token1) { token2=token1+5; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("DIV")->first==token1) { token2=token1+4; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("J")->first==token1) { token2=token1+2; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("JEQ")->first==token1) { token2=token1+5; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("JGT")->first==token1) { token2=strtok(NULL," "); test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("JLT")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("JSUB")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("LDA")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("LDCH")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("LDL")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("LDX")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("MUL")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("OR")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("RD")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("RSUB")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("STA")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("STCH")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("STL")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("STSW")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("STX")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("SUB")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("TD")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("TIX")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} } else if(operations.find("WD")->first==token1) { token2=token1+6; test=token2; if(test.empty()){cout<<"MISSING OPERAND"<<endl;exit(1);} else{LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} }*/ //else if( if(word==token1) {LCCTR=LCCTR+3;} else if(byte==token1) {string test; token2=token1+7; test=token2; if(test[0]=='C') {token3=token1+10; test=token3; if(test.length()>15) {cout<<"ERROR"<<endl; exit(1);} } else if(test[0]=='X') {token3=token1+10; test=token3; if(test.length()>14) {cout<<"ERROR"<<endl; exit(1);} } LCCTR=LCCTR+test.length(); } else if(resb==token1) {token3=token1+5; LCCTR=LCCTR+atoi(token3);} else if(resw==token1) {token3=token1+5; LCCTR=LCCTR+3*atoi(token3);} else if(end==token1) {exit(1);} /*else { test=token1; int last=test.length(); if(token1==start||test[0]=='C'||test[0]=='X'||ispunct(test[last])||isdigit(test[0])||isdigit(test[1])||isdigit(test[2])||isdigit(test[3])){} else { token2=strtok(NULL," "); //test=token2; cout<<token2; if(token2!=NULL) { symtable.insert( pair<string,int>(token1,LCCTR)); for(it=symtable.begin() ;it!=symtable.end() ;++it) {/*cout<<"symbol: "<<it->first<<" LCCTR: "<<it->second<<endl;} } else{} } }*/ return token3; } int main() { tokinizer(); return 0; }

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  • Microsoft Test Manager from Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

    - by LeeHull
    Anyone know the OS requirements for this? The actual System Requirements mention Windows 7 but after spending the time installing and configuring and finally get it up and running, went to the Testing Center and I get this message. "The Test Management features are not supported on Windows Home Premium." I now have to upgrade my Windows but I want to be sure what version is required

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  • Different Means Better with the new Windows Phone Developer Experience

    - by Nikita Polyakov
    If you are interested in the building mobile applications or have been in the past you might want to check out this blog post: Charlie Kindel - Different Means Better with the new Windows Phone Developer Experience What does this mean? Let me take some out takes and highlight them for you. It won’t come as a surprise to many to learn that the Windows Phone 7 developer experience builds upon the following GIANTS (among others): .NET Silverlight XNA platform Microsoft’s developer tools Web 2.0 standards and To enable the fantastic user experiences you’ve seen in the Windows Phone 7 Series demos so far we’ve had to break from the past. To deliver what developers expect in the developer platform we’ve had to change how phone apps were written. One result of this is previous Windows mobile applications will not run on Windows Phone 7 Series. To be clear, we will continue to work with our partners to deliver new devices based on Windows Mobile 6.5 and will support those products for many years to come, so it’s not as though one line ends as soon as the other begins. Once again, more details at MIX10. Start watching the @WP7Dev twitter account for more info.

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  • Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

    - by programmarketingOTN
    Register now! Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Discover the Power of Oracle SOA Suite 11gTuesday July 12, 2011 - ?9:00 a.m. PT – 1:30 p.m. PT / 12 Noon EDT - 4:30 p.m. EDTOTN is proud to host another Virtual Developer Day, this time focusing on SOA (click here to check out on-demand version of Rich Enterprise Applications and WebLogic)  Save yourself/company some money and join us online for this hands-on virtual workshop. Through developer-focused product presentations and demonstrations delivered by Oracle product and technology experts, there is no faster or more efficient way to jumpstart your Oracle SOA suite learning.Over the course of the Virtual Developer Day, you will learn how an SOA approach can be implemented, whether starting fresh with new services or reusing existing services. Using Oracle SOA Suite 11g components, you will explore, modify, execute, and monitor an SOA composite application. Topics include SCA, BPEL process execution, adapters, business rules and more.Java and WebLogic experience not required for the presentations or demonstrations but it is a plus for the hands-on lab.Come to this event if you are    •    Exploring ways to deliver services faster    •    Integrating packaged and/or legacy applications    •    Developing service orchestration    •    Planning or starting new development projectsRegister online now for this FREE event.AGENDA - Tuesday July 12, 2011?9:00 a.m. PT – 1:30 p.m. PT / 12 Noon EDT - 4:30 p.m. PT EDT  Time  Title  9:00 AM Keynote  9:15 AM Presentation 1 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Overview  9:45 AM Demonstration 1 Mediator and Adapters  10:15 AM Presentation 2 BPEL Service Orchestration and Business Rules  10:45 AM Demonstration 2 BPEL Service Orchestration  11:15 AM Demonstration 3 Oracle Business Rules  11:45 AM Hands-on Lab time  1:30 PM Close Register online now for this FREE event.

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  • Global Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), JavaOne Moscow, Java Summit Chennai

    - by arungupta
    My whirlwind tour of Java EE and GlassFish starts next weekend and covers the following cities in the next 6 weeks: JavaOne and Oracle Develop, Moscow Global Indian Developer Summit, Bangalore Java Summit, Chennai JavaOne, Hyderabad OTN Developer Day, Pune OTN Developer Day, Istanbul Geecon, Poznan JEEConf, Kiev OTN Developer Day, Johannesburg Several other members of the team will be speaking at some of these events as well. Please feel free to reach out to any of us, ask a question, and share your passion. Here is the first set of conferences coming up: Date: Apr 17-18 Schedule My Schedule       Deploying your Java EE 6 Applications in Producion hands-on lab       Technical Keynote       Some other technical sessions Venue: Russian Academy of Sciences Register Connect: @OracleRU Date: April 17-20 Schedule (date decided, time slots TBD) My Schedule: NetBeans/Java EE 6 workshop on April 19th, Other sessions (as listed above) on April 20 Venue: J. N. Tata Auditorium, National Science Symposium Complex, Sir C. V. Raman Avenue, Bangalore, India Register Connect: @GreatIndianDev Date: April 21, 2011 Schedule My Schedule: Java EE 7 at 9:30am, JAX-RS 2.0 at 11am Venue: VELS University Register (FREE) Connect: @jug_c Where will I meet or run with you ? Do ask me to record a video session if you are using GlassFish and would like to share your story at blogs.oracle.com/stories.

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  • How to become an expert web-developer?

    - by John Smith
    I am currently a Junior PHP developer and I really LOVE it, I love internet from first time I got into it, I always loved smartly-created websites, always was wondering how it all works, always admired websites with good design and rich functionality, and finally I am creating web-sites on my own and it feels really great. My goals are to become expert web-developer (aiming for creating websites for small and medium business, not enterprise-sized systems), to have a great full-time job, to do freelance and to create my own startup in future. General question: What do I do to be an expert, professional and demanded web-programmer? More concrete questions: 1). How do I choose languages and technologies needed? I know that every web-developer must know HTML+CSS+JS+AJAX+JQuery, I am doing some design aswell cause I like it and I need it for freelance also. But what about backend languages? Currently I picked PHP cause it's most demanded in my area and most of web uses it, but what would happen in future? Say, in 3 years, I am good at PHP and PHP frameworks by than, but what if some other languages get most popular? Do I switch to them? I know that good programmer is not about languages and frameworks but about ability to learn and to aim the goals, but still I think that learning frameworks for some language can take quite some time. Am I wrong? 2). In general, what are basic guidelines to be expert web-developer? What are most important things I should focus on? Thank you!

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  • Clean Code Developer & Certification in IT - MSCC 21.09.2013

    It was a very busy weekend this time, and quite some hectic to organise the second meetup on a Saturday for the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community (MSCC) but it was absolutely fun. Following, I'm writing a brief summary about the topics we spoke about and the new impulses I got. "What a meetup... I was positively impressed. At the beginning I thought that noone would actually show up but then by the time the room got filled. Lots of conversation, great dialogues and fantastic networking between fresh students, experienced students, experienced employees, and self-employed attendees. That's what community is all about!" Above quote was my first reaction shortly after the gathering. And despite being busy during the weekend and yesterday, I took my time to reflect a little bit on things happened and statements made before writing it here on my blog. Additionally, I was also very curious about possible reactions and blogs from other attendees. Reactions from other craftsmen Let me quickly give you some links and quotes from others first... "Like Jochen posted on facebook, that was indeed a 5+ hours marathon (maybe 4 hours for me but still) … Wohoo! We’re indeed a bunch of crazy geeks who did not realise how time flew as we dived into the myriad discussions that sprouted. Yet in the end everyone was happy (:" -- Ish on MSCC meetup - The marathon (: "And the 4hours spent @ Talking drums bore its fruit..I was doing something I never did before....reading the borrowed book while walking....and though I was not that familiar with things mentionned in the book...I was skimming,scanning & flipping...reading titles...short paragraphs...and I skipped pages till I reached home." -- Yannick on Mauritius Software Craftsmanship 1st Meet-up "Hi Developers, Just wanted to share with you the meetups i attended last Saturday - [...] - The second meetup is the one hosted by Jochen Kirstätter, the MSCC, where the attendees were Craftsman, no woman, this time - all sharing the same passion of being a developer - even though it is on different platforms(Windows - Windows Phone - Linux - Adobe(yes a designer) - .Net) - but we manage to sit at the same table - sharing developer views and experience in the corporate world - also talking about good practice when coding( where Jochen initiated a discussion on Clean Coding ) i could not stay till the end - but from what i have heard - the longer you stay the more fun you have till 1600. Developers in the Facebook grouping i invite you to stay tuned about the various developer communities popping up - where you can come to share and learn good practices, develop the entrepreneurial spirit, and learn and share your passion about technologies" -- Arnaud on Facebook More feedback has been posted on the event directly. So, should I really write more? Wouldn't that spoil the impressions? Starting the day with a surprise Indeed, I was very pleased to stumble over the existence of Mobile Monday Mauritius on LinkedIn, an association about any kind of mobile app development, mobile gadgets and latest smartphones on the market. Despite the Monday in their name they had scheduled their recent meeting on Saturday between 10:00 and 12:00hrs. Wow, what a coincidence! Let's grap the bull by its horns and pay them an introductory visit. As they chose the Ebene Accelerator at the Orange Tower in Ebene it was a no-brainer to leave home a bit earlier and stop by. It was quite an experience and fun to talk to the geeks over there. Really looking forward to organise something together.... Arriving at the venue As the children got a bit uneasy at the MoMo gathering and I didn't want to disturb them too much, we arrived early at Bagatelle. Well, no problems as we went for a decent breakfast at Food Lover's Market. Shortly afterwards we went to our venue location, Talking Drums, and prepared the room for the meeting. We only had to take off a repro-painting of the wall in order to have a decent area for the projector. All went very smooth and my two little ones were of great help. Just in time, our first craftsman Avinash arrived on the spot. And then the waiting started... Luckily, not too long. Bit by bit more and more IT people came to join our meeting. Meanwhile, I used the time to give a brief introduction about the MSCC in general, what we are (hm, maybe I am) trying to achieve and that the recent phase is completely focused on creating more awareness that a community like the MSCC is active here in Mauritius. As soon as we reached some 'critical mass' of about ten people I asked everyone for a short introduction and bio, just in case... Conversation between participants started to kick in and we were actually more networking than having a focus on our topics of the day. Quick updates on latest news and development around the MSCC Finally, Clean Code Developer No matter how the position is actually called, whether it is Software Engineer, Software Developer, Programmer, Architect, or Craftsman, anyone working in IT is facing almost the same obstacles. As for the process of writing software applications there are re-occurring patterns and principles combined with some common exercise and best practices on how to resolve them. Initiated by the must-read book 'Clean Code' by Robert C. Martin (aka Uncle Bob) the concept of the Clean Code Developer (CCD) was born already some years ago. CCD is much likely to traditional martial arts where you create awareness of certain principles and learn how to apply practices to improve your style. The CCD initiative recommends to indicate your level of knowledge and experience with coloured wrist bands - equivalent to the belt colours - for various reasons. Frankly speaking, I think that the biggest advantage here is provided by the obvious recognition of conceptual understanding. For example, take the situation of a team meeting... A member with a higher grade in CCD, say Green grade, sees that there are mainly Red grades to talk to, and adjusts her way of communication to their level of understanding. The choice of words might change as certain elements of CCD are not yet familiar to all team members. So instead of talking in an abstract way which only Green grades could follow the whole scenario comes down to Red grade level. Different story, better results... Similar to learning martial arts, we only covered two grades during this occasion - black and red. Most interestingly, there was quite some positive feedback and lots of questions about the principles and practices of the red grade. And we gathered real-world examples from various craftsman and discussed them. Following the Clean Code Developer Red Grade and some annotations from our meetup: CCD Red Grade - Principles Don't Repeat Yourself - DRY Keep It Simple, Stupid (and Short) - KISS Beware of Optimisations! Favour Composition over Inheritance - FCoI Interestingly most of the attendees already heard about those key words but couldn't really classify or categorize them. It's very similar to a situation in which you do not the particular for a thing and have to describe it to others... until someone tells you the actual name and suddenly all is very simple. CCD Red Grade - Practices Follow the Boy Scouts Rule Root Cause Analysis - RCA Use a Version Control System Apply Simple Refactoring Pattern Reflect Daily Introduction to the principles and practices of Clean Code Developer - here: Red Grade As for the various ToDo's we commonly agreed that the Boy Scout Rule clearly is not limited to software development or IT administration but applies to daily life in general. Same for the root cause analysis, btw. We really had good stories with surprisingly endings and conclusions. A quick check about who is using a version control system brought more drive into the conversation. Not only that we had people that aren't using any VCS at all, we also had the 'classic' approach of backup folders and naming conventions as well as the VCS 'junkie' that has to use multiple systems at a time. Just for the records: Git and GitHub seem to be in favour of some of the attendees. Regarding the daily reflection at the end of the day we came up with an easy solution: Wrap it up as a blog entry! Certifications in IT This is kind of a controversy in IT in general. Is it interesting to go for certifications or are they completely obsolete? What are the possibilities to get certified? What are the options we have in Mauritius? How would certificates stand compared to other educational tracks like Computer Science or Web Design. The ratio between craftsmen with certifications like MCP, MSTS, CCNA or LPI versus the ones without wasn't in favour for the first group but there was a high interest in the topic itself and some were really surprised to hear that exam preparations are completely free available online including temporarily voucher codes for either discounts or completely free exams. Furthermore, we discussed possible options on forming so-called study groups on a specific certificates and organising more frequent meetups in order to learn together. Taking into consideration that we have sponsored access to the video course material of Pluralsight (and now PeepCode as well as TrainSignal), we might give it a try by the end of the year. Current favourites are LPIC Level 1 and one of the Microsoft exams 40-78x. Feedback and ideas for the MSCC The closing conversations and discussions about how the MSCC is recently doing, what are the possibilities and what's (hopefully) going to happen in the future were really fertile and I made a couple of mental bullet points which I'm looking forward to tackle down together with orher craftsmen. Eventually, it might be a good option to elaborate on some issues during our weekly Code & Coffee sessions one Wednesday morning. Active discussion on various IT topics like certifications (LPI, MCP, CCNA, etc) and sharing experience Finally, we made it till the end of the planned time. Well, actually the talk was still on and we continued even after 16:00hrs. Unfortunately, we (the children and I) had to leave for evening activities. My resume of the day... It was great to have 15 craftsmen in one room. There are hundreds of IT geeks out there in Mauritius, and as Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community we still have a lot of work to do to pass on the message to some more key players and companies. Currently, it seems that we are able to attract a good number of students in Computer Science... but we have a lot more to offer, even or especially for IT people on the job. I'm already looking forward to our next Saturday meetup in the near future. PS: Meetup pictures are courtesy of Nirvan Pagooah. Thanks for sharing...

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  • Formatting minified jQuery, JavaScript using the Internet Explorer 9 Developer Toolbar

    - by Harish Ranganathan
    Much has been talked about the F12 developer toolbar in IE and the support it provides for web developers.  Starting IE8, the Developer Toolbar is a menu item that helps you view the page source, scripts, profiling and many other details of the rendered page.  It even allows script debugging from within and that makes it a truly powerful web developer tool bar. With IE9, the developer toolbar got even better with the Networking Tab that allows you to inspect the traffic/time taken and drill down into the Request/Response headers and other specifics. The script tab allows you to view the scripts used in the page. One of the challenges of working with JavaScript / jQuery when they are minified, is that, it becomes really hard to read.  Minified JavaScript is a compression technique and also a best practice for delivering faster web pages.  However, when you would like to debug, minified JavaScript files become very hard since they aren't properly formatted.  Take the case of the above sample, which is a basic MVC 3 Web Application.  It uses the minified jQuery and modernizr files. Once we select the above scripts, the script source looks as follows:- But with the “Format JavaScript” option in the Configuration icon, Once you click on the “Format JavaScript”, you can see the formatted JavaScript as per screen below:- This makes the script readable and also easy for debugging.  Cheers !!!

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  • Wierd Results A/B Test in Google Website Optimizer

    - by Yisroel
    I set up a test in Google Website Optimizer that has a 3 variations - original (A), B, and C. In order to further validate the results of the test, I added a variation C that is exactly the same as the original. And thats where the results get weird. 6 days in to the test, the best performing variation is C. It outperforms the original by 18.4%! How is that possible? Do I now discount the results of this test entirely?

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  • Wierd Results A/B Test in Google Website Optimizer

    - by Yisroel
    I set up a test in Google Website Optimizer that has a 3 variations - original (A), B, and C. In order to further validate the results of the test, I added a variation C that is exactly the same as the original. And thats where the results get weird. 6 days in to the test, the best performing variation is C. It outperforms the original by 18.4%! How is that possible? Do I now discount the results of this test entirely?

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  • Weird Results A/B Test in Google Website Optimizer

    - by Yisroel
    I set up a test in Google Website Optimizer that has a 3 variations - original (A), B, and C. In order to further validate the results of the test, I added a variation C that is exactly the same as the original. And thats where the results get weird. 6 days into the test, the best performing variation is C. It outperforms the original by 18.4%! How is that possible? Do I now discount the results of this test entirely?

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